Meaning of dependent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Relying upon; depending upon.
2. Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
3. clerk, salesperson, employee that attends to customers
4. Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
5. Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
6. Hanging down.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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[…]”

“a dependent bough or leaf”

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