🇬🇧 en fr 🇫🇷

agent noun

  /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒənt/ , /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɛnt/
  • One who exerts power, or has the power to act
  • 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
  • An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect
  • (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.
agent
  • Someone who works for an intelligence agency
agent, espion
  • (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".
complément d'agent

agentive adjective

  • (grammar) Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer).
agentif

agentive noun

  • (linguistics) A word having an agentive construction.
agentif

agentivity

agentivité

agentic adjective

  /eɪˈd͡ʒɛn.tɪk/ , /əˈd͡ʒɛn.tɪk/
  • (psychology, by extension, of a psychological state of a person) That obeys authority (introduced in Milgram's theory).
en mode mission

🇫🇷 fr en 🇬🇧

agent noun

  /a.ʒɑ̃/
  • Celui qui est chargé d’une fonction, d’une mission, soit par un gouvernement ou par une administration, soit par un ou plusieurs particuliers
  • Celui qui représente un artiste, assure la gestion et le suivi de sa carrière, trouve des engagements, négocie les contrats, assure sa promotion
  • Ce qui agit
agent
  • (Informatique) Logiciel envoyé sur un réseau pour effectuer une tâche à la place de l'utilisateur et sans son intervention
agent, subject
  • (Renseignement) Personne travaillant pour un service de renseignement sans en faire partie
asset
agent, spy
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