def|er|ent

def|er|ent
def|er|ent1 «DEHF uhr uhnt», adjective.
= deferential. (Cf. ↑deferential)
╂[< defer2 + -ent]
def|er|ent2 «DEHF uhr uhnt», adjective, noun.
–adj.
carrying down or away; efferent.
–n.
1. something that carries or conveys; conductor: »

All of them are dull and inapt deferents except air (Francis Bacon).

2. (in Ptolemaic astronomy) a circle around the earth, along the circumference of which the orbits of the other planets were supposed to rotate.
╂[< Latin dēferēns, -entis, present participle of dēferre; see etym. under defer2 (Cf. ↑defer)]

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