desk officer
- n a military officer who is not assigned to active duty
dependency
- n the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
- n being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- n a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
dependent clause
- n a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb
dependent variable
- n (statistics) a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value depends on the independent variable