deferent

See also: déférent and défèrent

English

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deferent (comparative more deferent, superlative most deferent)

Showing deference; deferential.
(obsolete) Serving to carry; bearing.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
  Bodies deferent.

Showing deference

deferent (plural deferents)

(anatomy) A deferent duct in the body, as opposed to an afferent one.
(obsolete) That which carries or conveys.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
  though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds
(obsolete, Ptolemaic astronomy) 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.

deferent m or n (feminine singular deferentă, masculine plural deferenți, feminine and neuter plural deferente)

		masculine	feminine	masculine	neuter
		singular		plural
nominative- accusative	indefinite	deferent	deferentă	deferenți	deferente
nominative- accusative	definite	deferentul	deferenta	deferenții	deferentele
genitive- dative	indefinite	deferent	deferente	deferenți	deferente
genitive- dative	definite	deferentului	deferentei	deferenților	deferentelor