dependent
Etymology
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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")).
Pronunciation- IPA: /dɪˈpɛndənt/
dependent
- Relying upon; depending upon.
- At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition.
- (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
- 2005, Alejandro Balbás, Rosario Romera, Esther Ruiz, Recent Advances in Applied Probability, Springer, page 49:
- Within the GMM framework, the distribution of returns conditional on the market return can be both serially dependent and conditionally heteroscedastic.
- 2006, M.M. Rao, Randall J. Swift, Probability Theory with Applications (Second Edition), Springer, page 87:
- 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.
- (of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms) Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
- (medicine) Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
- Hanging down.
- a dependent bough or leaf
- French: dépendant
- German: abhängig, angewiesen
- Italian: dipendente
- Portuguese: dependente
- Russian: зави́симый
- Spanish: dependiente
dependent (plural dependents) (American spelling)
A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support. - With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.
- (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- (grammar) 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.
- (philosophy) 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.
- French: dépendant, dépendante, personne à charge
- German: Unterhaltsempfänger, Unterhaltsempfängerin, Abhängiger (der Abhängige), Abhängige
- Portuguese: dependente
- Russian: иждиве́нец
- Spanish: dependiente
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