Dependent

//dɪˈpɛndənt//

"Dependent" in a Sentence (19 examples)

When talking about your last results, it is dependent on the last examination.

We are indirectly dependent upon the labour of others for all the necessities and comforts of our lives.

The taste of wine is largely dependent upon the weather.

Dick has been dependent on his parents, but is now independent of them.

The economy of the island is dependent on the fishing industry.

The boy is totally dependent on his parents.

The industry is heavily dependent on government funding.

Don't be too dependent on others.

My parents are always dependent on him.

Our trip is dependent on the weather.

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At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition.

It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.

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.”

Within the GMM framework, the distribution of returns conditional on the market return can be both serially dependent and conditionally heteroscedastic.

Is it possible to find events A, B of Ω so that A and B are independent? The answer to this simple and interesting problem is no. A probability space (Ω,Σ,P) is called a “dependent probability space” if there are no nontrivial independent events in Ω, (Ω,Σ,P) is called an independent space otherwise.

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.

The limbs should not assume a dependent position and may be supported; for example, the upper arm and leg may be flexed and supported on pillows[…]

a dependent bough or leaf

With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.

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