Definition of independent

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Independent (a.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.

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Ground :: Ground (n.) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody..
Article :: Article (n.) A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia..
Tirailleur :: Tirailleur (n.) Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers..
Argument :: Argument (n.) The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.
Autocratrix :: Autocratrix (n.) A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a title given to the empresses of Russia.
Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o
Hypothec :: Hypothec (n.) A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent..
Archdeacon :: Archdeacon (n.) In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority..
Cytode :: Cytode (n.) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present..
Multifariousness :: Multifariousness (n.) The fault of improperly uniting in one bill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them..
Independently :: Independently (adv.) In an independent manner; without control.
Seigneurial :: Seigneurial (a.) Vested with large powers; independent.
Communalism :: Communalism (n.) A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism..
Prelude :: Prelude (v. t.) An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (Mus.), a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with recent composers often synonymous with overture..
Autogenous :: Autogenous (a.) Developed from an independent center of ossification.
Dualism :: Dualism (n.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.
Dichromatic :: Dichromatic (a.) Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects..
Liege :: Liege (n.) A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign..
Neuralgia :: Neuralgia (n.) A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion..
Overture :: Overture () A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture..
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