Other forms: dependencies
A dependency is another piece of code your program needs to run. Add a dependency, dependency hell, a missing dependency.
Modern projects pull in hundreds indirectly, which is why a single small package breaking can stop thousands of builds — it has happened. Pinning versions and auditing what you pull in are basic hygiene. A dependency is also a territory governed by another country, and in medicine it is addiction. Note dependent; and that the Latin means to hang from.
1noundependencyAnother piece of code your program needs to run.
“The build failed because one dependency had been deleted from the server.”
2nounterritoryA territory governed by another country.
“Jersey is a Crown dependency, so it is not part of the United Kingdom.”
dependency is a thing depended on.
Depend plus an ending, from Latin dependere — de plus pendere, to hang. Pendant, suspend and pension come from the same hanging.
Middle French
dépendance
English
dependence
English, today
dependency
From dependent + -cy or dependence + -y or depend + -ency. dependence comes from Middle French dépendance. Morphologically depend + ence.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA