Associations to the word «Deferent»
Noun
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Wiktionary
DEFERENT, adjective. Showing deference.
DEFERENT, adjective. (obsolete) Serving to carry; bearing.
DEFERENT, noun. (obsolete) That which carries or conveys.
DEFERENT, noun. (obsolete) (Ptolemaic astronomy) An imaginary circle surrounding the Earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the centre of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
Dictionary definition
DEFERENT, adjective. Showing deference.
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.