noun
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A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a freethinker, free of a party platform.
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A neutral or uncommitted person.
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A team not affiliated with any league or conference.
adjective
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Not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.
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Not affiliated with any political party.
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the independent candidate
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Providing a comfortable livelihood.
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an independent property
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Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
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a man of an independent mind
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Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
Examples of independent in a Sentence
I'd like space to do some independent experiments too.
Lori was certainly independent – and ambitious.
Can we not count upon some independent votes?
Alex married an independent woman who loved to cook and take care of her family.
Maybe she was too independent for her own good.
She was so confident and independent that she could be a different person.
This sort of thing is usually done via the witness protection program but I once heard of a situation where fake papers were assembled independent of any government agency.
She was too independent for him to voice his concerns for her.
Certainly she was more independent, but hadn't Josh become more assertive?
Here he was, in total control, independent of outside power—only his arms and legs and gravity.
No independent men, such as you or I, are left.
Originally it comprised two independent kingdoms, Bernicia and Deira.
Unfortunately, the more independent she became, the less she listened to his advice.
It also becomes clear that only where such mental life really appears need we assign an independent existence, but that the purposes of everyday life as well as those of science are equally served if we deprive the material things outside of us of an independence, and assign to them merely a connected existence through the universal substance by the action of which alone they can appear to us.
Reading, I think, should be kept independent of the regular school exercises.
He wanted her to be more independent, but when she tried, he hung on to her.
In 1888 Charlottesville was chartered as a city administratively independent of the county.
The book is Miss Keller's and is final proof of her independent power.
He formalized the structure of medical inquiry as an independent science.
It was an independent lab and when Cynthia took a bathroom break and freed the phone, he telephoned.
Alex was trying his best to teach her to be independent.
Her first independent novel, Indiana, was written.
Within this agency there are districts as independent as any in Afghanistan, but the political status of the province as a whole is almost precisely that of the native states of the Indian peninsula.
The independent states are Sumbawa proper, Dompo, Sangar and Bima.
Nor is there any man so independent on his farm that he can say them nay.
You can't be blamed if I keep doing a little snooping, independent like.
In 1841 an independent reform congregation was founded, and the Spanish and Portuguese Jews have always maintained their separate existence with a IIaham as the ecclesiastical head.
But besides these three, there were many other independent cities, which, though they generally followed the lead of one or other of these more powerful rivals, enjoyed complete autonomy, and were able to shift at will from one alliance to another.
It thus places a broad width of independent territory between the boundaries of British India (which have remained practically, though not absolutely, untouched) and Afghanistan; and this independent belt includes Swat, Bajour and a part of the Nlohmand territory north of the Kabul river.
Solving the equation by the Ordinary Theory Of Linear Partial Differential Equations, We Obtain P Q 1 Independent Solutions, Of Which P Appertain To S2Au = 0, Q To 12 B U =0; The Remaining One Is Ab =Aobl A 1 Bo, The Leading Coefficient Of The Jacobian Of The Two Forms. This Constitutes An Algebraically Complete System, And, In Terms Of Its Members, All Seminvariants Can Be Rationally Expressed.
If now the nti c denote a given pencil of lines, an invariant is the criterion of the pencil possessing some particular property which is independent alike of the axes and of the multiples, and a covariant expresses that the pencil of lines which it denotes is a fixed pencil whatever be the axes or the multiples.
The nati-ve troops include 13 regiments and 8 independent battalions.
There are also an orphans' home, supported by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a Carnegie library.
Belajeff regards it as a true centrosome; but this is doubtful, for while in some cases it appears to be connected with the division of the cell, in others it is independent of it.
Boveri in fact has put forward the view that the chromosomes are elementary units which maintain an organic continuity and independent existence in the cell.
Protoplasmic Continuity.Except in the unicellular plants the cell is not an independent unit.
Casimir de Candolle has made an independent investigation, based on Hooker and Benthams Genera plantarum.
While the central provinces, Media and northern Babylonia, were conquered by the Parthians, Mesene, Elymais and Persis made themselves independent.
These - as indicated by their supply from a branch of the hypoglossal nerve, which descends on either side of the trachea - are, so to speak, a detached, now mostly independent colony of glosso-pharyngeal muscles.
The last of these is an independent attempt to render the original name, which was probably There were originally 77, but 5 have perished.
In estimating theoretically the resolving power on a double star we have to consider the illumination of the field due to the superposition of the two independent images.
Its remoteness from the control of the authority of the German and French kings, together with its inaccessibility, gave special facilities in Lower Lorraine to the growth of a number of practically independent feudal states forming a group or system apart.
The remaining years of Innocent's life were taken up by a quarrel with the Roman commune, which had set up an independent senate, and one with King Louis VII.
St Mary's in Builth, took its name from the ancient territorial division of Buallt in which it is situated, which was, according to Nennius, an independent principality in the beginning of the 9th century, and later a cantrev, corresponding to the modern hundred of Builth.
Occasional outbreaks of cholera occur from time to time, and in the independent states these cause terrible loss of life, as the natives fly from the disease and spread the infection in every direction.
In the meantime, Vermont continued as an independent state without any recognition from Congress until its admission into the Union on the 4th of March 1791.
Agha harbour has also an independent entrance on its southern side.
Cromwell was not the originator of this act, but showed his approval of it by taking his seat among the fifty or sixty Independent members who remained.
There is no doubt that under average conditions of atmospheric density, the .005 should be replaced by 003, for many independent authorities using different methods have found values very close to this last figure.
The independent plant which is generally attached to the soil by hair-like structures is the sexual generation, the sporophyte is a stalked or sessile capsule which remains always attached to the gametophyte from which it derives the whole or part of its nourishment.