plural of independent counsel

(US, law, politics) A special prosecutor

(geometry) Said of a set of points in an affine space: the property that the vectors issuing from an arbitrarily chosen point to the rest of the points are linearly independent.

(grammar) A grammatical construction in which a noun or pronoun in the genitive or possessive case is used independently of the noun which it possesses.

plural of independent possessive

plural of independent genitive

(grammar) Synonym of independent genitive.

Partially independent.

(algebra) In an equation, any variable whose value is not dependent on any other in the equation. / (sciences) The variable that is changed or manipulated in a series of experiments.

(mathematics) Any of a set of functions the value of which can not be deduced from that of all the others.