- deferent⇄adj. carrying down or away; efferent.
- deferent⇄deferent (1), adjective. deferential.
- deferent⇄deferent (2), adjective, noun.
- deferent⇄noun 1. something that carries or conveys; conductor.
Ex. All of them are dull and inapt deferents except air (Francis Bacon).
2. (in Ptolemaic astronomy) a circle around the earth, along the circumference of which the orbits of the other pl