dependency
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
A relationship between processes or activities that directly or indirectly relies upon another process or activity to occur, begin, or finish.
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Senses
Wordset Dictionary
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
Wordset Dictionary
the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
Wordset Dictionary
being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
Classifications
Entity Type
Process72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- addictioncolonydependancedependence
- alternatephrasing
- Dependency
- plural
- dependencies
- possessive
- dependency's
- pluralpossessive
- dependencies'