(finance) status of having enough income or wealth sufficient to pay one's living expenses for the rest of one's life without having to be employed or dependent on others

A Euro-sceptic political party in the United Kingdom.

A greeting used during Independence Day to recognize its celebration.

(algebra) In an equation, any variable whose value is not dependent on any other in the equation. / (sciences) The variable that is changed or manipulated in a series of experiments.

(grammar) A clause that can stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; contains at least a subject and a verb.

(mathematics) Any of a set of functions the value of which can not be deduced from that of all the others.

(linear algebra) (Of a set of vectors or ring elements) whose nontrivial linear combinations are nonzero

(mathematics, physics) Not time-dependent; not determined by the value of a variable representing time.

(graph theory) a set of vertices of a graph, such that no pair of them are adjacent to each other; in other words, a set of vertices which are all "independent" of each other

plural of independent set