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Definition of Deferent
1. Adjective. Showing deference.
Similar to: Respectful
Derivative terms: Defer, Deference, Deference, Deference, Deference, Deference, Deference
Definition of Deferent
1. a. Serving to carry; bearing.
2. n. That which carries or conveys.
Definition of Deferent
1. Adjective. Showing deference. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deferent
1. an imaginary circle around the earth [n -S]
Medical Definition of Deferent
1. Carrying away. Origin: L. Deferens, pres. P. Of defero, to carry away (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deferent
Literary usage of Deferent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"deferent,—that which bears, carries, or conveys. It. Dif-ferire; Sp. -erir ; Fr.
-férer ; L. Di/erre, in diversa« partes ferré, to bear diverse ways. ..."
2. The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-century by Owen Gingerich, Robert S. Westman (1988)
"Had he done so, keeping the epicycles the same, the Martian deferent would have
shrunk so that the intersection of the Martian epicycle and the solar ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1787)
"... fluid agrees with watery vapour, in confiding of a deferent fluid, ...
its deferent fluid quitting the gravitating matter, to pafs to a body that has ..."
4. A Treatise on Lathes and Turning, Simple, Mechanical and Ornamental by W. Henry Northcott (1876)
"If the radial ratio is as 1 is to 1, or if the radius of the deferent and ...
When the epicyclic radius is less than the deferent radius the loops of the ..."
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