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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: deferent (0.01073 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to deferent.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: deferent
deferent
adj : showing deference [syn:
deferential,
regardful]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Deferent
Deferent
\Def"er*ent\, a. [L. deferens, p. pr. of deferre. See
3d
Defer.]
Serving to carry; bearing. [R.]
“Bodies deferent.” --Bacon.
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Deferent
\Def"er*ent\, n.
1. That which carries or conveys.
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Though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds.
--Bacon.
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2. (Ptolemaic Astron.) An 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.
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