Dependency

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Dependency or dependent may refer to:

Medicine and psychology

• Chemical dependency, a need for a substance so strong that it becomes necessary to have this substance to function properly
• Co-dependency, 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 variable, 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 (law), 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, a 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

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