Conditioned upon; to a varying extent or degree based on.

a way of life characterized by a dependency on state benefits

physical and psychological dependency on an addictive drug

(computing) An attribute of a relation that depends on a key but also on a part of such key; this is a violation of second normal form.

Alternative form of path dependence

(software architecture) A type-safe way of supplying an external dependency to a software component.

(computing, database normalization) A constraint between two sets of attributes in a relation.

plural of dependency injection

(geography) The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age of 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force.

(databases) An attribute of a relation that depends on a key but also on a third attribute which is not a key; this is a violation of third normal form.