dependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɛndənt/
Forms: form: more dependent
form: most dependent
form: dependant
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.
Senses: examples: text: At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition.
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
glosses: Relying upon; depending upon.
examples: text: 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.”
ref: 1994, Kathryn Stout, Maximum Math, page 217:
text: Within the GMM framework, the distribution of returns conditional on the market return can be both serially dependent and conditionally heteroscedastic.
ref: 2005, Alejandro Balbás, Rosario Romera, Esther Ruiz, Recent Advances in Applied Probability, Springer, page 49:
text: 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.
ref: 2006, M.M. Rao, Randall J. Swift, Probability Theory with Applications (Second Edition), Springer, page 87:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
glosses: Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
raw_tags: of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2008 February 17, Umberto Lucangelo, Paolo Pelosi, Walter A. Zin, Andrea Aliverti, Respiratory System and Artificial Ventilation, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 198:
text: 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[…]
ref: 2009, Gabby Koutoukidis, Rita Funnell, Karen Lawrence, Jodie Hughson, Kate Stainton, Tabbner's Nursing Care: Theory and Practice, Elsevier Australia, →ISBN, page 406:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
examples: text: a dependent bough or leaf
glosses: Hanging down.
Synonyms: word: reliant
word: contingent
word: dependent
Hypernyms: word: connected
Hyponyms: word: conditional
Derived terms: accommodating dependent
antedependent
case dependent
case-dependent
co-dependent
context-dependent
cyber-dependent
dependapotamus
dependently
dependent personality disorder
disquieted dependent
domestic dependent nation
hyperdependent
immature dependent
ineffectual dependent
inter-dependent
interdependent
language-dependent
light-dependent resistor
linearly dependent
nondependent
order-dependent
overdependent
passive-dependent
phosphodependent
photodependent
redshift-dependent
selfless dependent
semidependent
system-dependent
time-dependent
undependent
Related terms: word: agreeable
word: correspondent
word: friendly