You talk about someone's dependency when they have a deep emotional, physical, or financial need for a particular person or thing, especially one that you consider excessive or undesirable. We worried about his dependency on his mother independence
a condition caused by the death or disability of a member of a soldier's or spouse's immediate family who previously had supported those persons now dependent upon the soldier; the death or disability of the family member must have placed the responsibility of support on the soldier
[P&S] A module, A, depends upon another module, B, if it is possible that a change to B means that A also needs to be changed, in which case Module A is said to be a client of B and B is said to be a server to A A system with many dependencies has high coupling A good system has low coupling
A state in which other libraries|programs|packages are required to make a program work
The relationships among prepared statements and dictionary objects in a database Cloudscape tracks the dependency that publications, stored prepared statements, and prepared statements have on the dictionary objects they access If dropping or modifying a dictionary object would cause an open prepared statement to be invalidated, the change is not permitted
A relationship between tasks, such that one requires input from the other to begin (back to top)
A relationship between requirements such that the requirement that is depended upon must normally be satisfied for the other requirements to be able to meet their objectives
That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like