dependent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
medicine
philosophy
sciences
statistics
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.
Inflected forms:
form: more dependent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dependent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dependant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: dependents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dependant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
UK
Senses:
gloss: Relying upon; depending upon.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
pos: adj
gloss: Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
pos: adj
examples: 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[…]
gloss: Hanging down.
pos: adj
examples: a dependent bough or leaf
gloss: A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.
gloss: An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: US
Synonyms: reliant
contingent
dependent
Antonyms: independent
self-reliant
Related words: agreeable
correspondent
friendly
depend
dependee
dependence
dependency
dependent clause
dependent variable
depender
Derived words: accommodating dependent
antedependent
case dependent
case-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
co-dependent
depending
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