Dependency or dependent may refer to: - Medicine and psychology
- Substance dependence, a need for a substance so strong that it becomes necessary to have this substance to function properly
- Codependence, a pattern of detrimental, behavioral interactions within a dysfunctional relationship
- Dependence (behavioral medicine), a continuum of physical and psychological attachments related to the concept of addiction
- Dependent personality disorder, a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive psychological dependence on other people
- Applied mathematics and computer science
- Coupling (computer science), also called dependency, a state in which one object uses a functionality of another object
- Data dependency, which describes a dependence relation between statements in a program
- Dependency (project management), a link amongst a project's terminal elements
- Dependency relation, a type of binary relation in mathematics and computer science.
- Dependency (UML), a relationship between two elements in the Unified Modeling Language
- Dependent type, in computer science and logic, a type which depends on a value
- Dependent and independent variables, in mathematics, the variable that is dependent on the independent variable
- Other
- Dependent territory, a classification of territory, especially a region that is not a sovereign state, but the possession of such
- Dependant, a person who depends on another as a primary source of income
- Dependency theory, an economic worldview which states that resources flow from poor states to wealthy states
- Dependent Music, an independent Canadian record label, owned and operated by the artists that were a part of the collective
- Dependent Records, a German independent record label that focuses on aggrotech, electro-industrial and futurepop music
- Dependency ratio, in economics, the ratio of the economically dependent part of the economy to the productive part
- Dependent and independent verb forms, in Goidelic languages, distinct verb forms used either with a preceding particle, in the case of dependent forms, or without one, in the case of independent forms
- Such as in Development/Foreign Aid, where the "help" or "assistance" given may leave the recipients with something locally unsustainable/unviable, and therefore in dependency on on-going outside interventions (to finance, maintain, perpetuate, etc). Such development can also tend to stifle local initiative, and may devalue or even indignify those on the "receiving" ends.
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