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de⋅pend⋅ant

  [di-pen-duhnt]
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–adjective, noun
dependent.
Related forms:
de⋅pend⋅ant⋅ly, adverb

de⋅pend⋅ent

  [di-pen-duhnt]
–adjective
1. relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
2. conditioned or determined by something else; contingent: Our trip is dependent on the weather.
3. subordinate; subject: a dependent territory.
4. Grammar. not used in isolation; used only in connection with other forms. In I walked out when the bell rang, when the bell rang is a dependent clause. Compare independent (def. 14), main 1 (def. 4).
5. hanging down; pendent.
6. Mathematics.
a. (of a variable) having values determined by one or more independent variables.
b. (of an equation) having solutions that are identical to those of another equation or to those of a set of equations.
7. Statistics. (of an event or a value) not statistically independent.
–noun
8. a person who depends on or needs someone or something for aid, support, favor, etc.
9. a child, spouse, parent, or certain other relative to whom one contributes all or a major amount of necessary financial support: She listed two dependents on her income-tax form.
10. Archaic. a subordinate part.
Also, dependant.

Origin:
1375–1425; late ME dependaunt. See depend, -ent

Related forms:
de⋅pend⋅ent⋅ly, adverb
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de·pen·dant   (dĭ-pěn'dənt)   
n.  Variant of dependent.
de·pen·dent   (dĭ-pěn'dənt)   
adj.  
  1. Contingent on another.
  2. Subordinate.
  3. Relying on or requiring the aid of another for support: dependent children.
  4. Hanging down.
n.  also de·pen·dant One who relies on another especially for financial support.
de·pen'dent·ly adv.
Synonyms: These adjectives mean determined or to be determined by something else: a water supply dependent on rainfall; conditional acceptance of the apology; assistance contingent on need; the importance of a discovery as relative to its usefulness; promotion subject to merit.
Antonym: independent
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Dependant

De*pend"ant\, Dependance \De*pend"ance\, n.,
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : dependant
Spanish: persona a su cargo,
German: der , *die Angehörige,
Japanese: 扶養家族
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