- marked by or showing deference: She was always deferent to her elders.
- conveying away; efferent.
- of or relating to the vas deferens.
- (in the Ptolemaic system) the circle around the earth in which a celestial body or the center of the epicycle of its orbit was thought to move.
- another word for deferential
- (esp of a bodily nerve, vessel, or duct) conveying an impulse, fluid, etc, outwards, down, or away; efferent
- (in the Ptolemaic system) a circle centred on the earth around which the centre of the epicycle was thought to move
