independent : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
  CIS.
  

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• noun an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments
  

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• noun a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
  main clause.
  

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• (Mil.), one not incorporated in any regiment.

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• a stop watch having a second hand driven by a separate set of wheels, springs, etc., for timing to a fraction of a second.

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• noun a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations
  Papua New Guinea.
  

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• noun a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific
  Samoa i Sisifo; Western Samoa; Samoa.
  

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• noun (statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables
  experimental variable.
  

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• . (Math.) See Dependent variable, under Dependent.

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• noun each member of a pair of homologous chromosomes separates independently of the members of other pairs so the results are random
  

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