What does "deferent" mean?
Deferent: That which carries or conveys. Though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds. Bacon.
Additional senses
- 2.(Ptolemaic Astron.) An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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