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deferent: Meaning and Definition of
def•er•ent
Pronunciation: (def'ur-unt), [key]
— adj.
- marked by or showing deference: She was always deferent to her elders.
def•er•ent
Pronunciation: (def'ur-unt), [key]
— adj. Anat.
- conveying away; efferent.
- of or pertaining to the vas deferens.
- (in the Ptolemaic system) the circle around the earth in which a celestial body or the center of the epicycle of its orbit was thought to move.
See also:
- deferent (Thesaurus)
