Usually means: Path in geocentric astronomical model.
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  1. deferent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deferent, deferent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deferent, deferent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deferent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deferent: Vocabulary.com
  6. deferent: Wordnik
  7. deferent: Wiktionary
  8. deferent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. deferent: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. deferent: Dictionary.com
  11. Deferent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Deferent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. deferent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. deferent: Rhymezone
  15. Deferent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. deferent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. deferent: Free Dictionary
  18. deferent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. deferent: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. deferent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. deferent: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DEFERENT: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deferent)

adjective:  Showing deference; deferential.
adjective:  (obsolete) Serving to carry; bearing.
noun:  (anatomy) A deferent duct in the body, as opposed to an afferent one.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (obsolete) That which carries or conveys.

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