dependentadj/dɪˈpɛndənt/

• 1

  Relying upon; depending upon.

  • 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.
• 2

  mathematicssciencesstatisticsHaving a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.

  • 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.
• 3

  Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.

• 4

  medicinesciencesOf part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.

  • 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[…]
• 5

  Hanging down.

  • a dependent bough or leaf

dependentnoun/dɪˈpɛndənt/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsAn element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.

• 3

  grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsThe 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.

• 4

  human-sciencesphilosophysciencesdependent (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.