Dependent Meaning
/dɪˈpɛndənt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjRelying upon; depending upon.
adjHaving a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
Sentence Examples
When talking about your last results, it is dependent on the last examination.
The taste of wine is largely dependent upon the weather.
A woman with several dependent children
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CEFR Practice Quiz
A young child is completely ____ on parents for food and shelter.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
When talking about your last results, it is ____ on the last examination.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English dependaunt, dependent, from Middle French dependant (present participle of dependre (“to depend”)) and Latin dēpendēns (present participle of dēpendeō (“to depend”)). By surface analysis, depend + -ent.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
"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.”"
— 1994, Kathryn Stout, Maximum Math, page 217:
"Within the GMM framework, the distribution of returns conditional on the market return can be both serially dependent and conditionally heteroscedastic."
— 2005, Alejandro Balbás, Rosario Romera, Esther Ruiz, Recent Advances in Applied Probability, Springer, page 49:
"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."
— 2006, M.M. Rao, Randall J. Swift, Probability Theory with Applications (Second Edition), Springer, page 87:
"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."
— 2008 February 17, Umberto Lucangelo, Paolo Pelosi, Walter A. Zin, Andrea Aliverti, Respiratory System and Artificial Ventilation, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 198:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
A young child is completely ____ on parents for food and shelter.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
When talking about your last results, it is ____ on the last examination.