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Dependent
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- 1 Relying upon; depending upon.
"At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition."
- 2 Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
"The formula for finding the probability of one event followed by a dependent event is written P(A, B) = P(A) × P(B/A) where P(B/A) is read “the probability of B given A.”"
- 3 Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
- 4 Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
"Several groups have shown that the gravitational distribution of pleural pressure is much more uniform when animals are in a prone rather than in a supine position, […] After volume-infusion-induced pulmonary oedema, Ppl was positive in the dependent lung regions in supine animals but much less positive in those in the prone position."
- 5 Hanging down.
"a dependent bough or leaf"
- 1 addicted to a drug wordnet
- 2 contingent on something else wordnet
- 3 relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed wordnet
- 4 (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence wordnet
- 5 being under the power or sovereignty of another or others wordnet
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- 6 held from above and hanging down wordnet
- 1 A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support. US
"With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all."
- 2 a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) wordnet
- 3 An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners. US
- 4 The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages. US
- 5 dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance. US
Etymology
From Middle English dependaunt, dependent, from Middle French dependant (present participle of dependre (“to depend”)) and Latin dēpendēns (present participle of dēpendeō (“to depend”)). By surface analysis, depend + -ent.
From Middle English dependaunt, dependent, from Middle French dependant (present participle of dependre (“to depend”)) and Latin dēpendēns (present participle of dēpendeō (“to depend”)). By surface analysis, depend + -ent.
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