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Definitions for Deferent
[1] marked by or showing deference: She was always deferent to her elders.
[2] conveying away; efferent.
[3] of or relating to the vas deferens.
[4] Astronomy . (in the Ptolemaic system) the circle around the earth in which a celestial body or the center of the epicycle of its orbit was thought to move.
[5] another word for deferential
[6] (esp of a bodily nerve, vessel, or duct) conveying an impulse, fluid, etc, outwards, down, or away; efferent
[7] astronomy (in the Ptolemaic system) a circle centred on the earth around which the centre of the epicycle was thought to move
Words nearby Deferent
defensive circle, defensive driving, defensive medicine, defer, deference, deferent, deferent duct, deferentectomy, deferential, deferentitis, deferment
Origin of Deferent
21375–1425; late Middle English < Latin dēferent- (stem of dēferēns ), present participle of dēferre. See defer2, -ent
Word origin for Deferent
C17: from Latin dēferre ; see defer ²