Deferent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Showing deference; deferential.
  • adj. Anatomy Carrying down or away. Used of a duct or vessel.
  • adj. Serving or adapted to carry or transport.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Showing deference.
  • n. That which carries or conveys.
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Serving to carry; bearing.
  • n. That which carries or conveys.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Bearing off or away; carrying off; conveying away; specifically, in anatomy and physiology, efferent: opposed to afferent: as, the deferent duct of the testes.
  • n. That which carries or conveys; a conductor.
  • n. Specifically A vessel or duct in the human body for the conveyance of fluids.
  • n. (also called the orbit), in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, a circle upon the circumference of which another circle was supposed to move, this second circle being called the epicycle, and carrying the body of the planet.
  • n. In mathematics, the locus of the centers of circles of which a bicircular quartic is drawn as the envelop.
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  • adj. showing deference
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    respectful   
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