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deferents

deferents is the plural of deferent.

Meaning of deferent

Noun

deferent (plural deferents)

  1. A duct in the body serving to carry away from, as opposed to an afferent one.
  2. (historical, Ptolemaic astronomy) An imaginary circle surrounding the Earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the centre of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
  3. (obsolete) That which carries or conveys.
    • though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...

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Questions about deferents

What is deferents the plural of?
Deferents is the plural of deferent.

Words near deferents in the dictionary

  1. deferentialism
  2. deferentiality
  3. deferentially
  4. deferentitis
  5. deferently
  6. deferents
  7. deferiprone
  8. deferitrin
  9. deferment
  10. deferments
  11. defernite

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