agent
noun
/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒənt/
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/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɛnt/
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- One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to do the business of another
- Someone who works for an intelligence agency
- (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.
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Agent
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- An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect
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Wirkstoff
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- (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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Agens
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agentivity
noun
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- (grammar) The state or condition of being agentive.
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Agentivität
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