A referent (/ˈrɛfərənt/ REF-ər-ənt) is a person or thing to which a name – a linguistic expression or other symbol – refers. For example, in the sentence...

Referent power is a form of reverence gained by a leader who has strong interpersonal relationship skills. Referent power, as an aspect of personal power...

The nearest referent is a grammatical term sometimes used when two or more possible referents of a pronoun, or other part of speech, cause ambiguity in...

potential harm (or other unwanted coercion). Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions...

Systems theory is the transdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or artificial...

A case–control study (also known as case–referent study) is a type of observational study in which two existing groups differing in outcome are identified...

is called the referent of the first object. A name is usually a phrase or expression, or some other symbolic representation. Its referent may be anything...

although the pronouns can have a referent, they cannot have a direct relationship with the referent where the referent selects the pronoun. For instance...

identified those five bases of power as coercive, reward, legitimate, referent, and expert. This was followed by Raven's subsequent addition in 1965 of...

or place – is a name which ordinarily is taken to uniquely identify its referent in the world. As such it presents particular challenges for theories of...

Elicitation interviews help to identify relevant behavioral outcomes, referents, cultural factors, facilitating factors, and barriers to change in the...

intervals. It is often a key pattern (also known as a guide pattern, phrasing referent, timeline, or asymmetrical timeline), in most cases it is a metal bell...

literary texts. An important theory formulated in the book is the absent referent, which she uses to explain the fact that people keep eating meat, and is...

OBV) third person is a grammatical-person marking that distinguishes a referent that is less important to the discourse from one that is more important...

Canadian that most typically modify nouns, denoting characteristics of their referents (e.g., a red car). As modifiers, they come before the nouns they modify...

Penguin Books Limited. p. 11. ISBN 9780241983386. Peck, "Chimaera". The referent of "she" in Theogony 319 is uncertain, see Clay, p. 159, with n. 34; Gantz...

close correspondence between the behaviour of the model and that of its referent. The crafting of this correspondence can be 'empirical' in a wide variety...

something that does not have any sex, or do not specify the sex of their referent, have come to belong to one or other of the genders, in a way that may...

Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Parting Glass "The Parting Glass" is a Scottish traditional song, often sung at the end of a...

within a given context. The entity identified by a name is called its referent. A personal name identifies, not necessarily uniquely, a specific individual...

a given exemplar of a particular phoneme differed from a referent phoneme. If the referent phoneme is a non-prototypical phoneme for that language, both...

referent that is visible and in a known distance from both the speaker and the listener(s) (both the speaker and the listener(s) can see the referent)...

link from some other website (the referrer) to that web resource (the referent). A web resource may be (for example) a website, web page, or web directory...

more expressions refer to the same person or thing; they have the same referent. For example, in Bill said Alice would arrive soon, and she did, the words...

operandi), most of the Latin referent words and phrases are perceived as foreign to English. In a few cases, English referents have replaced the original...

Benevolent dictator for life (BDFL) is a title given to a small number of open-source software development leaders, typically project founders who retain...

intended referents if there were no minds mediating those intentions, via their own internal means of picking out those intended referents. So the meaning...

identical with ′(the referent of <h>)+1′ Suppose that, for some number n: (1) The referent of <h> is identical with n Then, surely, the referent of <h> exists...

intensional definitions are two key ways in which the objects, concepts, or referents a term refers to can be defined. They give meaning or denotation to a...

the kind of a referent: e.g. solar energy, departmental meeting. Qualifying modificiation further specifies some quality of a referent: e.g. black cars...