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adjective
1.
not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.
2.
not subject to another's authority or jurisdiction; autonomous; free: an independent businessman.
3.
not influenced by the thought or action of others: independent research.
4.
not dependent; not depending or contingent upon something else for existence, operation, etc.
5.
EXPANDnot relying on another or others for aid or support.
6.
rejecting others' aid or support; refusing to be under obligation to others.
7.
possessing a competency: to be financially independent.
8.
sufficient to support a person without his having to work: an independent income.
9.
executed or originating outside a given unit, agency, business, etc.; external: an independent inquiry.
10.
working for oneself or for a small, privately owned business.
11.
expressive of a spirit of independence; self-confident; unconstrained: a free and independent citizen.
12.
free from party commitments in voting: the independent voter.
13.
Mathematics. (of a quantity or function) not depending upon another for its value.
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Logic.
a.
(of a set of propositions) having no one proposition deducible from the others.
b.
(of a proposition) belonging to such a set.
16.
Statistics. statistically independent.
17.
COLLAPSE(initial capital letter
) Ecclesiastical. of or pertaining to the Independents.
) Ecclesiastical. of or pertaining to the Independents.noun
18.
an independent person or thing.
19.
a small, privately owned business: The conglomerates are buying up the independents.
20.
Politics. a person who votes for candidates, measures, etc., in accordance with his or her own judgment and without regard to the endorsement of, or the positions taken by, any party.
21.
(initial capital letter) Ecclesiastical. an adherent of Independency.
) Ecclesiastical. an adherent of Independency.22.
British. a Congregationalist.
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Independent
is always a great word to know.
So is common denominator. Does it mean:
| the amount by which one quantity is greater or less than another |
| a number that is a multiple of all the denominators of a set of fractions |
23.
independent of, irrespective of; regardless of: Independent of monetary considerations, it was a promising position.
Related forms
in·de·pend·ent·ly, adverb
non·in·de·pend·ent, adjective
non·in·de·pend·ent·ly, adverb
pre·in·de·pend·ent, adjective
pre·in·de·pend·ent·ly, adverb
EXPANDpseu·do·in·de·pend·ent, adjective
pseu·do·in·de·pend·ent·ly, adverb
qua·si-in·de·pend·ent, adjective
qua·si-in·de·pend·ent·ly, adverb
su·per·in·de·pend·ent, adjective
su·per·in·de·pend·ent·ly, adverb
COLLAPSE
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| independent (ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | free from control in action, judgment, etc; autonomous |
| 2. | not dependent on anything else for function, validity, etc; separate: two independent units make up this sofa |
| 3. | not reliant on the support, esp financial support, of others |
| 4. | capable of acting for oneself or on one's own: a very independent little girl |
| 5. | providing a large unearned sum towards one's support (esp in the phrases independent income, independent means) |
| 6. | living on an unearned income |
| 7. | maths See also independent variable (of a system of equations) not linearly dependent |
| 8. | statistics |
| a. (of two or more variables) distributed so that the value taken by one variable will have no effect on that taken by another or others | |
| b. Compare statistical dependence (of two or more events) such that the probability of all occurring equals the product of their individual probabilities | |
| 9. | of a set of propositions logic |
| a. not validly derivable from one another, so that if the propositions are the axioms of some theory none can be dispensed with | |
| b. not logically related, so that in no case can the truth value of one be inferred from those of the others | |
| —n | |
| 10. | an independent person or thing |
| 11. | a person who is not affiliated to or who acts independently of a political party |
| inde'pendently | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
independent
1610s, from in- "not" + dependent (q.v.). Fr. independant is attested from c.1600; It. independente from 1590s. Noun meaning "person not acting as part of a political party" is from 1808.
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