Used to indicate that different situations may produce different results.

(computer science) Making a distinction between upper-case and lower-case letters.

(algebra) In an equation, the variable whose value depends on one or more variables in the equation. / (sciences) An outcome measured to see the effectiveness of the treatment.

(grammar) A subordinate clause.

a way of life characterized by a dependency on state benefits

physical and psychological dependency on an addictive drug

mutually dependent (especially of an unhealthy psychological relationship in which one person perpetuates another's addiction or harmful behaviour)

A person in such a relationship

(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.

(algebra, uncountable) The state of being linearly dependent / (mathematics, countable) A linear relation between some appropriate things