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Independent   /ˌɪndɪpˈɛndənt/   Listen
adjective
Independent  adj.  
1.
Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. "A dry, but independent crust."
2.
Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property.
3.
Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind.
4.
Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner.
5.
Separate from; exclusive; irrespective. "That obligation in general, under which we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement."
6.
(Eccl.) Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents.
7.
(Math.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; said of quantities or functions.
8.
(U. S. Politics) Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party.
Independent company (Mil.), one not incorporated in any regiment.
Independent seconds watch, a stop watch having a second hand driven by a separate set of wheels, springs, etc., for timing to a fraction of a second.
Independent variable. (Math.) See Dependent variable, under Dependent.
Synonyms: Free; uncontrolled; separate; uncoerced; self-reliant; bold; unconstrained; unrestricted.



noun
Independent  n.  
1.
(Eccl.) One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority. Note: In England the name is often applied (commonly in the pl.) to the Congregationalists.
2.
(Politics) One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.






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... special or separate notice. We allude to the forms of life, and natural human passion, as apparent in the structure of his dialogue. Among the many defects and infirmities of the French and of the Italian drama, indeed, we may say of the Greek, the dialogue proceeds always by independent speeches, replying indeed to each other, but never modified in its several openings by the momentary effect of its several terminal forms immediately preceding. Now, in Shakspeare, who first set an example of that most important innovation, ...
— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey

... naturalist; or, as Milne Edwards has well expressed it, Nature is prodigal in variety, but niggard in innovation. Why, on the theory of Creation, should this be so? Why should all the parts and organs of many independent beings, each supposed to have been separately created for its proper place in nature, be so commonly linked together by graduated steps? Why should not Nature have taken a leap from structure to structure? On the theory of natural selection, we can clearly understand why she should not; for natural ...
— On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection • Charles Darwin

... the President and Colonel House see this, though they do not admit it, and that to save the League from being cast into the discard they will attempt to make of it a sort of international agency to do certain things which would normally be done by independent international commissions. Such a course would save the League from being still-born and would so interweave it with the terms of peace that to eliminate it would be to ...
— The Peace Negotiations • Robert Lansing

... the articles they produce, but merely to control prices by lower tariffs. With the abandonment of the last of the "Interests" and at the same time of the "consumers" that they use as a cloak, the new movement promises for the first time a fairly independent and lasting political organization of the ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling

... between the two brothers, short as it was, had lasted long enough to cost Persia a province. Vatche, king of Aghouank (Albania) took advantage of the time of disturbance to throw off his allegiance, and succeeded in making himself independent. It was the first object of Perozes, after establishing himself upon the throne, to recover this valuable territory. He therefore made war upon Vatche, thought that prince was the son of his sister, and with the ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7. (of 7): The Sassanian or New Persian Empire • George Rawlinson


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