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Definitions: Dependency |
DependencyNoun1. Lack of independence or self-sufficiency. 2. Being abnormally dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dependency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Language | Direct relation between two elements of a sentence such that one depends on(conversely, is governed by)the other. The relation is transitive, irreflexive and antisymetric. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A dependency in project management is a link among project's terminal elements.
There are four kinds of dependencies with respect to ordering terminal elements (in order of decreasing frequency of use):
See also: project planning In computer science, dependency is a state that one object uses a functionality of another object. This may cause changes on implementation of one object can affect that of another object. Information hiding is a way to eliminate dependency to limit influence of changes and improve moduality.
It also is common in talking about software package management. One software package, in order to work or to be fully functional, may depend on other software packages and thus must be installed also, and their specific versions must be known if backwards compatibility is broken between versions. The Apt package format, as well as some versions of the RPM package format.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dependency."
Synonyms: DependencySynonyms: addiction (n), dependance (n), dependence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pendency | Noun: pendency, dependency; suspension, hanging; Verb: pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, pony tail, pendulum; hangnail |
Possession | Noun: possession, seizin, seisin; ownership; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency; villenage, villeinage; socage, chivalry, knight service. |
Property | Manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium; (free); fief, fieff, feoff, feud, zemindary, dependency; arado, merestead, ranch. |
Relation | Noun: relation, bearing, reference, connection, concern,. cognation; correlation; analogy; similarity; affinity, homology, alliance, homogeneity, association; approximation; (nearness); filiation; (consanguinity); interest; relevancy; dependency, relationship, relative position. |
Subjection | Noun: subjection; dependence, dependency; subordination; thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom; feudalism, feudality; vassalage, villenage; slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude; conquest. |
Uncertainty | Vagueness; Adjective: haze, fog; obscurity; (darkness); ambiguity; (double meaning); contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question; (question); onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission. |
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Crosswords: Dependency |
| English words defined with "dependency": benzodiazepine ♦ clean ♦ Dependancy, Dependencies ♦ Taluk. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dependency": age dependency ratio, assistant therapy aide, asylum attendant ♦ charge attendant, chemical dependency attendant, Cyrix 6x86 ♦ dependency between tasks, dependency line, dependency load, dependency loop, Dependency Override, dependency ratio, dependency theory ♦ Foreign State of Chargeability, functional dependency ♦ home and school visitor ♦ long distance dependency ♦ Melita, multivalued dependency ♦ non-local dependency ♦ pacemaker dependency, pacer dependency, Pentium, Professional Judgment, PSYCHIATRIC AIDE, psychiatric attendant ♦ rehabilitation of alcohol and drug abusers ♦ school adjustment counselor, Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool, SOCIAL WORKER, SCHOOL, SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR ♦ unbounded dependency ♦ visiting teacher ♦ ward attendant. (references) |
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Lyrics | I guess I fell so deep in love I grew dependency (U.N.I.T.Y.; performing artist: Queen Latifah) | |
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 | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Students from Brown University are engaged in a study of marsh dependency of estuarine fishes.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Strife Dependency And The Pursuit Of Loneliness : Drinking Destroys Dreams / Beth Bevan.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | LASIK is a surgical procedure intended to reduce a person's dependency on glasses or contact lenses. (references) | |
Injuries related to alcohol or drug abuse often necessitate chemical dependency treatment in the rehabilitation process. (references) | ||
Urinary incontinence, the involuntary loss of urine so severe as to have social and/or hygienic consequences, is a major clinical problem and a significant cause of disability and dependency. (references) | ||
Business | RES project implementation will reduce the dependency on energy imports and consequently improve the balance of payments for the energy sector. (references) | |
That the need exists for the ratification of new legislation and the revision of current legislation in order for both privatization and restructuring to proceed demonstrates reform's dependency upon the political process. (references) | ||
Omnitel pioneered Lithuanian telecommunications by releasing the country from the dependency on Russian networks, when it opened a satellite earth station in 1992. Currently Omnitel covers more than 90% of the Lithuanian territory and accounts for 64% of the Lithuanian mobile telecommunication market. (references) | ||
Children | Canada | Sexual exploitation of persons with disabilities in situations of dependency is a criminal offense. (references) |
Economic History | Singapore | The government discourages dependency on unskilled foreign labor. (references) |
Portugal | Macau, a former dependency, reverted to Chinese sovereignty in December 1999. (references) | |
Political Economy | Kuwait | Although initial plans to reduce the number of expatriates in the country are now seen as unrealistic, public and political pressure will continue for all firms and government ministries to reduce their dependency on non-Kuwaitis. (references) |
Women | Zimbabwe | Illiteracy, economic dependency, and prevailing social norms prevent rural women in particular from combating societal discrimination. (references) |
Worker Rights | Austria | There also were cases of women who came to Austria explicitly to work as prostitutes but who then were forced into states of dependency akin to slavery. (references) |
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Mary Tyler Moore | Well, because it used to be thought that it only hit children in the way that you have to treat it as a type-one, we call it now. It's insulin dependency that is called juvenile or type one. |
Rush Limbaugh | But to supplement the incomes of people who are working, is nothing more than a Democrat trick to expand dependency and create more Democratic Party voters. |
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James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | None can fail to see the danger to our safety and future peace if Texas remains an independent state or becomes an ally or dependency of some foreign nation more powerful than herself. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | Meantime our Government in each dependency is upholding the traditions of civil liberty and increasing popular control which might be expected under American auspices. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Dependency has become the one enduring heirloom, passed from one generation to the next, of too many fragmented families. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our administration gave two dozen states the right to slash through federal rules and regulations to reform their own welfare systems, and to try to promote work and responsibility over welfare and dependency. |
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| "Dependency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.63% of the time. "Dependency" is used about 805 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.63% | 802 | 8,674 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 805 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dependency": age dependency ratio ♦ conceptual dependency ♦ Dependency (Psychology) ♦ dependency allowance ♦ dependency between tasks ♦ dependency line ♦ dependency load ♦ dependency loop ♦ dependency ratio ♦ dependency theory ♦ functional dependency ♦ long distance dependency ♦ multivalued dependency ♦ pacemaker dependency ♦ pacer dependency ♦ unbounded dependency. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "dependency": dependency-directed, dependency-in, dependency-through-loss. | |
Ending with "dependency": context-dependency, wage-dependency. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | vend në vartësi, varësi (dependence, relation, subjection, subjugation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الإعتماد علي الغير. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | колония (colony, community, plantation, settlement, stock), васална страна, нещо което е подчинено на друго, зависима страна. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 附庸 (Dependancy, Dependencies), 屬地 (annexed territory, possession). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | država. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | afhaengighedsforhold (state of dependence), afhængighed (coupling, dependence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onderhorigheid, afhankelijkheidsverhouding (state of dependence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نیازمندی (Necessity, Need, Requirement), کشورغیرمستقل , تعلق , بستگی (Bind, Concern, Dependence, Kinship, Liaison, Vicinity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | riippuvuussuhde (state of dependence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dépendance (dependence, drug dependence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schutzgebiet (isolated zone, preserve, refuge, sanctuary, wildlife reserve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξάρτηση (anaclisis, conditioning, dependence, drug dependence, harness, interlocking, reliance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyarmat (colony, plantation, settlement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dipendenza (addiction, dependence, outbuilding, outhouse, reliance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "属 (subordination), 属 (dominion, possession, territory), 属国 (vassal state or nation), 寄食 (parasitism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぞくりょう (a subordinate, dominion, possession, territory), ぞっ"く (vassal state or nation), きしょく (countenance, glad countenance, humor, joyful look, looks, mood, parasitism), じゅうぞく (subordination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 속국 (Dependancy, Dependencies, Tributaries, tributary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kercheenys (abjection, abjectness, base meanness, baseness, servility, shabbiness, slavishness, vileness, wretchedness), barrantys (commission, dependability, dependence, guarantee, sponsorship, trust, trustworthiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ependencyday dependência (appendant, bondage, dependence, liability, outhouse, poison dependence, room, subjection), subordinado (accessorial, ancillary, attendant, dependant, dependence, dependent, inferior, secondary, servitor, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary, under, Valent), segurança (assuredness, certainty, coverage, dependability, dependence, indemnity, reliability, safety, salvation, security, self-assurance, shelter), possessão (belongings, dependence, possession, property), pendência (abeyance, dependence, odds, pendency), ligacao de dependencia (state of dependence), confiança (affiance, assurance, assuredness, belief, confidence, credit, dependability, dependence, faith, hope, hopeless, reliability, reliance, reposal, trust), anexo (accessory, accompaying, addendum, addition, additional, annex, annexe, appendage, appendant, appendix, appurtenant, attach, attendant, dependence, enclosure, inclosure, lean-to, neighbourhood, outbuilding, outburst, outhouse, outlier, supplement, vicinity), acessórios (accessories, belongings, dependence, fittings, furnishings, garniture, propulsion). (various references) dependenţã (dependence, subjection), subordonare (subordination), colonie (colony, Eau de cologne, Rookery, settlement), ţarã dependentã. (various references) зависимость (allegiance, bondage, dependence, subjection, vassalage). (various references) zavisnost (dependence). (various references) dependencia (annex, annexe, Apanage, appanage, appendant, appurtenance, dependence, outbuilding, reliance, subjection, subordination). (various references) underlydande område, biland, besittning (dominion, possession, property, territory), beroendeförhållande (state of dependence). (various references) sömürge (colonial, colony, plantation), koloni (colony), bağımlılık (addiction, bondage, dependance, dependence, fixation, habit, indulgence, inveteracy, servitude, subjection). (various references) несамостійність (dependence), зумовленість (dependence), залежність (bondage, dependence, servitude, subjection), підлеглість (dependence, inferiority). (various references) vật phụ thuộc (accompaniment, appendage, appendant), phần phụ thuộc nước phụ thuộc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "dependency": codependency, independency, interdependency. (additional references) | |
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"Dependency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dependancie, dependancy, dependenc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dependency" (pronounced dupe"ndunsē) |
| 7 | -e" n d u n s ē | ascendancy, ascendency, tendency. |
| 6 | -n d u n s ē | despondency, redundancy. |
| 5 | -d u n s ē | presidency, residency, stridency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, agency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, proficiency, regency, relevancy, resiliency, solvency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-e-e-n-n-p-y" | |
-2 letters: pendency. | |
-4 letters: deepen, denned, depend, needed, peened, pended, penned, yenned. | |
-5 letters: ceded, deedy, ended, needy, pence, penne, penny. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-e-e-n-n-p-y" | |
+2 letters: codependency, independency. | |
+5 letters: interdependency, unprecedentedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 70 65 6E 64 65 6E 63 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .--. . -. -.. . -. -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110000 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e p e n d e n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0070 0065 006E 0064 0065 006E 0063 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38718271807071806991 |
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