Definition of "dependency"

dependency

/dɪˈpɛndənsi/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural dependencies
1. A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
2. Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else:
3. A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
  Quotations
  ‘I have a little theory which you Messieurs who go out there must help me to prove. This is my share in the advantages my country shall reap from the possession of such a magnificent dependency.’
  1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I, page 201
4. A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol.
5. (computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
6. (computing) An external component whose functionality is relied on.