Airbag vs Dependency - What's the difference?
airbag | dependency |
A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.
A similar inflated bag used in performing stunts, etc.
* 2005 , Alan Tussy, ?R. Gustafson, Developmental Mathematics for College Students (page 1030)
(slang) A person who talks too much; a windbag or gossip.
A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else:
A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol; addiction.
(computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
As nouns the difference between airbag and dependency
is that airbag is airbag while dependency is a state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.airbag
English
(wikipedia airbag)Noun
(en noun)- As part of a scene in a movie, a stuntman falls from the top of a 95-foot-tall building into a large airbag directly below him on the ground, as shown in Figure 15-3.
dependency
English
Noun
(dependencies)- Frank's sullen dependency was driving his father nuts.
- In the United States' governmental structure, the military is conceived as a dependency under the executive branch.
- This library has a lot of dependencies . We have to compile all of those other libraries first.