Dependency

Dependency, dependent, or depend may refer to:

Computer science

• Coupling (computer programming), also known as dependency: a state in which one object uses a function of another object
• Data dependency, which describes a dependence relation between statements in a program
• Dependence analysis, in compiler theory
• Dependency (UML), a relationship between one element in the Unified Modeling Language
• Dependency relation, a type of binary relation in mathematics and computer science
• Functional dependency, a relation between database attributes allowing normalization.
• Dependent type, in computer science and logic, a type that depends on a value
• Hidden dependency, a relation in which a change in many areas of a program produces unexpected side-effects
• Library dependency, a relationship described in and managed by a software dependency manager tool to mitigate dependency hell

Mathematics

• Dependency relation, a type of binary relation in mathematics and computer science.
• Dependent and independent variables, in mathematics, the variable that depends on the independent variable
• Tail dependence, from probability theory
• Serial dependence, in statistics

Linguistics

• Dependent and independent verb forms, distinct verb forms in Goidelic languages used with or without a preceding particle
• Dependency grammar is based on the dependency relation between the lexemes of a sentence

Other uses

• Dependency (project management)

External links

• Dependency @ Wikipedia