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Deferent \Def"er*ent\, a. [L. deferens, p. pr. of deferre. See
3d {Defer}.]
Serving to carry; bearing. [R.] "Bodies deferent." --Bacon.
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Deferent \Def"er*ent\, n.
1. That which carries or conveys.
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Though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds.
--Bacon.
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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.
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