deferent

From French déférent, from Latin dēferēns, dēferentis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛfəɹənt/

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deferent (comparative more deferent, superlative most deferent)

1. Showing deference; deferential.
2. (obsolete) Serving to carry; bearing.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Bodies deferent.

• deferently

• deferential

deferent (plural deferents)

1. (anatomy) A deferent duct in the body, as opposed to an afferent one.
2. (historical, 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.
3. (obsolete) That which carries or conveys.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds

dēferent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēferō

Learned borrowing from Latin dēferēns.

• IPA^(key): /dɛˈfɛ.rɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛrɛnt
• Syllabification: de‧fe‧rent

deferent m inan

1. (historical, Ptolemaic astronomy) deferent (imaginary circle surrounding the Earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round)

   Synonym: deferens

   Coordinate term: epicykl

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Borrowed from French déférent, from Latin deferens.

deferent m or n (feminine singular deferentă, masculine plural deferenți, feminine and neuter plural deferente)

1. deferential