(grammar) A grammatical construction in which a noun or pronoun in the genitive or possessive case is used independently of the noun which it possesses.

An alliance and confederation of nine former Soviet republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed as a successor to the Soviet Union.

(law) A doctrine in the law of wills under which a testator may effectively change the disposition of his property without changing the text of the will, so long as the acts or events changing the disposition have some significance other than avoiding the requirements of the will.

plural of act of independent significance

An athlete participating in the Olympic Games under the Olympic flag, i.e. without representing any nation, either because the athlete is stateless, or because their nation has no international recognition or is banned.

plural of Independent Olympic Participant

An annual celebration commemorating the anniversary of a nation's assumption of independent statehood.

A holiday celebrated in the United States commemorating the country's independence from Great Britain, celebrated each year on the 4th of July.

(algebra) the state of being linearly independent

(graph theory) the number of vertices in a maximum independent set of a given graph, often denoted as 𝛼=𝛼(G)