Hypertext Webster Gateway: "deferent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Deferent \Def"er*ent\, a. [L. deferens, p. pr. of deferre. See
3d {Defer}.]
Serving to carry; bearing. [R.] ``Bodies deferent.'' --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Deferent \Def"er*ent\, n.
1. That which carries or conveys.
Though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds.
--Bacon.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
deferent
adj : showing deference [syn: {deferential}, {regardful}]
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