agent
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
< Latin agens, present participle of agere (“‘to drive", lead, conduct, manage, perform, do’”)
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /'eɪ.ʤɛnt/
- Audio (US)help, file
[edit] Noun
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agent (plural agents)
- One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
- Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill. --Dryden.
- One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
- An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.
- (computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
- (grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
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- See also Wikisaurus:deputy
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Terms derived from the noun "agent"
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one who exerts power
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one who acts in place of another
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active power or cause
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computing: part of the system that performs action on behalf of a client or server
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- agent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- agent in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Crimean Tatar
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agent
- agent
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declension of agent
| nominative | agent |
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| genitive | agentniñ |
| dative | agentke |
| accusative | agentni |
| locative | agentte |
| ablative | agentten |
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- Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]
[edit] Croatian
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àgent m.
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declension of agent
| singular | plural | |
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| nominative | agent | agenti |
| genitive | agenta | agenata |
| dative | agentu | agentima |
| accusative | agenta | agente |
| vocative | agente | agenti |
| locative | agentu | agentima |
| instrumental | agentom | agentima |
[edit] Dutch
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agent m.
- agent
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[edit] French
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agent m. (plural agents)
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- IPA: [a'ʤent]
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agent m. (plural agenţi; feminine equivalent agentă)
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declension of agent
[edit] Serbo-Croatian
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àgent m. (Cyrillic spelling: а̀гент)
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declension of agent
| singular | plural | |
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| nominative | agent | agenti |
| genitive | agenta | agenata |
| dative | agentu | agentima |
| accusative | agenta | agente |
| vocative | agente | agenti |
| locative | agentu | agentima |
| instrumental | agentom | agentima |