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noun(in-de-pen-dence)the quality or state of being independent
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noun(in-de-pen-dence)competence
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geographical name(in-de-pen-dence)city in western Missouri east of Kansas City population 116,830
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noun(in-de-pen-dence)a civil holiday for the celebration of the anniversary of the beginnings of national independence; specifically : July 4 observed as a legal holiday in the U.S. in commemoration of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
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noun(in-de-pen-dence)the property of a set (as of matrices or vectors) having no linear combination of all its elements equal to zero when coefficients are taken from a given set unless the coefficient of each element is zero
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noun(in-de-pen-dence)March 2 observed as the anniversary of the declaration of independence of Texas from Mexico in 1836 and also as the birthday of Sam Houston
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noun phrase(in-de-pen-dence)the war of 1775-83 in which 13 British colonies in North America broke free from British rule and became the United States of America
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idiom(in-de-pen-dence)to say that one no longer accepts the rule of another
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noun phrase(in-de-pen-dence)a war that is fought to gain independence