noun the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else.
— synonyms: dependence, dependance
noun being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs).
— synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependance, habituation
noun a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.
— synonyms: colony
Examples
“This library has dependencies on a lot of other libraries. We have to compile all of those other libraries first.”
“One of this library's dependencies is very finicky. It can be hard to get it to compile on some systems.”