DEPENDING ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depending on mean? 

• DEPENDING ON (adjective)
  The adjective DEPENDING ON has 1 sense:

1. being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow

  Familiarity information: DEPENDING ON used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPENDING ON (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow

Synonyms:

contingent; contingent on; contingent upon; dependant on; dependant upon; dependent on; dependent upon; depending on

Context example:

arms sales contingent on the approval of congress

Similar:

conditional (imposing or depending on or containing a condition)

 Context examples 

There may be different tests depending on the state where you live.

(Newborn Screening, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

The results also suggest that the effects of self-defeating humour on well-being may differ depending on where the research takes places.

(Self-defeating humour promotes psychological well-being, University of Granada)

Queens age biologically at different rates depending on their colony’s exposure to a variety of environmental stresses, which can include available nutrition and exposure to temperature extremes.

(Species Shifts in the Honey Bee Microbiome Differ with Age and Hive Role, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Depending on the type of disease and how bad it is, treatment may include surgery to remove tumors, radiation therapy, and medicines.

(Neurofibromatosis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Naftifine hydrochloride can be fungicidal as well as fungistatic to yeasts depending on the concentration and the organisms involved.

(Naftifine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The severity of this condition can vary from mild anemia to death, depending on the number of genes deleted.

(Alpha Thalassemia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The resulting ligand-receptor complex is translocated to the nucleus where, depending on the tissue type, it promotes or suppresses the transcription of estrogen-regulated genes, thereby exerting its agonistic or antagonistic effects.

(Acolbifene hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Naftifine can be fungicidal or fungistatic depending on the concentration and the organisms involved.

(Naftifine, NCI Thesaurus)

This zombie-like "feeding" process differs depending on the nature of the normal star, but the result may be an eruption of X-rays.

(NASA's NuSTAR Captures Possible 'Screams' from Zombie Stars, NASA)

Depending on the virus, the nucleocapsid may correspond to a naked core or be surrounded by a membranous envelope.

(Nucleocapsid Protein, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)