<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.</li><li>Conditioned or determined by something else; contingent: Our trip is dependent on the weather.</li><li>Subordinate; subject: a dependent territory.</li><li>Grammar: not used in isolation; used only in connection with other forms. In "I walked out when the bell rang," "when the bell rang" is a dependent clause.</li><li>Hanging down; pendent.</li><li>Mathematics: (of a variable) having values determined by one or more independent variables. (of an equation) having solutions that are identical to those of another equation or to those of a set of equations.</li><li>Statistics: (of an event or a value) not statistically independent.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A person who depends on or needs someone or something for aid, support, favor, etc.</li><li>A child, spouse, parent, or certain other relative to whom one contributes all or a major amount of necessary financial support: She listed two dependents on her income-tax form.</li><li>Archaic: a subordinate part.</li></ul>