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Meaning of dependent | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2 Standard
dɪˈpɛndənt

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

Deutsch abhängig
Italiano dipendente
日本語 次第 頼る
Português dependente

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”

CEFR level

C2
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