deferent
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈdɛfəɹənt/
deferent
- Showing deference.
- (obsolete) Serving to carry; bearing.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- Bodies deferent.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
deferent (plural deferents)
- (anatomy) A deferent duct in the body, as opposed to an afferent one.
- (obsolete) That which carries or conveys.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- (obsolete, Ptolemaic astronomy) An imaginary circle surrounding the Earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the centre of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
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