Noun

Singular dependency

Plural dependencies

dependency (plural dependencies)

1. A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.

   Frank's sullen dependency was driving his father nuts.

2. Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else:

   In the United States' governmental structure, the military is conceived as a dependency under the executive branch.

3. A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
4. A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol; addiction.
5. (computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.

   This library has a lot of dependencies. We have to compile all of those other libraries first.

Dependency

Dependency or dependent may refer to:

Medicine and psychology

• Substance dependence, a need for a substance so strong that it becomes necessary to have this substance to function properly
• Codependence, a pattern of detrimental, behavioral interactions within a dysfunctional relationship
• Dependence (behavioral medicine), a continuum of physical and psychological attachments related to the concept of behavioral addiction
• Dependent personality disorder, a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive psychological dependence on other people

Applied mathematics and computer science

• Coupling (computer science), also called dependency, a state in which one object uses a functionality of another object
• Data dependency, which describes a dependence relation between statements in a program
• Dependency relation, a type of binary relation in mathematics and computer science.
• Dependency (UML), a relationship between two elements in the Unified Modeling Language
• Dependent type, in computer science and logic, a type which depends on a value
• Dependent and independent variables, in mathematics, the variable that is dependent on the independent variable

Other

• Dependency (project management), a link amongst a project's terminal elements
• Dependent territory, a classification of territory, especially a region that is not a sovereign state, but the possession of such
• Dependant (British English) (Dependent - American English), a person who depends on another as a primary source of income
• Dependency theory, an economic worldview which states that resources flow from poor states to wealthy states
• Dependent Music, an independent Canadian record label, owned and operated by the artists that were a part of the collective
• Dependent Records, a German independent record label that focuses on aggrotech, electro-industrial and futurepop music
• Dependency ratio, in economics, the ratio of the economically dependent part of the economy to the productive part
• Dependent and independent verb forms, in Goidelic languages, distinct verb forms used either with a preceding particle, in the case of dependent forms, or without one, in the case of independent forms