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...

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...

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...

A translator-referent or a referent-translator (terminology used almost exclusively in the former Soviet Union) is a multilingual business or government...

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 these terms have been made distinct) are signifiers without a referent. The term open signifier is sometimes used as a synonym due to the empty...

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

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...

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

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

fluidly interpretable referent are considered unbounded. This distinction also relies on the divisibility of the lexical item's referent into distinct segments...

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...

the philosophy of language, an empty name is a proper name that has no referent. The problem of empty names is the idea that empty names have a meaning...

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...

historical chain theory of reference is a theory of how terms acquire specific referents based on evidence. Such theories have been used to describe many referring...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent, such as gender, animacy, shape, but such designations are often clearly...

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

constituents, the referent of one of which (the possessor) in some sense possesses (owns, has as a part, rules over, etc.) the referent of the other (the...

some Christian Bible translations as "oryx" (which was accepted as the referent in Modern Hebrew),[citation needed] "wild ox", "wild bull", "buffalo" or...

assign the referent a common term (e.g., "by 'girl', do you mean 'Jane'?") Once lexical entrainment has come to determine the phrasing for a referent, both...

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

given web resource (referent), a backlink is a regular hyperlink on another web resource (the referrer) that points to the referent. A web resource may...

class of RATs—the rapid strep tests for streptococci—were so often the referent when RATs or RADTs were mentioned that the two latter terms were often...

speaker believes that the listener knows the identity of a common noun's referent (because it is obvious, because it is common knowledge, or because it was...