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dependency

nounid 2284·updated May 9, 2026
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A relationship between processes or activities that directly or indirectly relies upon another process or activity to occur, begin, or finish.

Classifications

Entity Type

Process72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
dependencies
possessive
dependency's
pluralpossessive
dependencies'

Framework definitions

NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
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A relationship between processes or activities that directly or indirectly relies upon another process or activity to occur, begin, or finish.

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.