antecedent
Kelime Anlamı :

1. önce gelen.
2. önceki.
3. antesedan.
4. evvelki.
5. evveli.
6. yerine zamir gelen isim.
7. öncül.
8. (to) -den önce olan, -den önceki.
9. önerti.
10. geçmişte vaki olay.
Zıt Anlamlı Kelimeler :
Tanımlar :
1. earlier, either in time or order.
2. any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
3. an ancestor.
4. A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
5. the conditional part of a hypothetical proposition.
6. the first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. being before in time, place, rank, or logical order; prior; anterior; as, an event antecedent to the deluge.
2. one who or that which goes before in time or place.
3. in grammar: the noun to which a relative, pronoun refers: as, solomon was the prince who built the temple, where the word prince is the antecedent of who. formerly, the noun to which a following pronoun refers, and whose repetition is avoided by the use of the pronoun.
4. in logic: that member of a conditional proposition of the form, “If A is, then B is,” which states, as a hypothesis, the condition of the truth of what is expressed in the other member, termed the consequent: in the proposition given the antecedent is “if A is.”
5. the premise of a consequence, or syllogism in the first figure with the major premise suppressed.
6. an event upon which another event follows.
7. in mathematics, the first of two terms of a ratio, or that which is compared with the other. thus, if the ratio is that of 2 to 3, or of a to b, 2 or a is the antecedent.
8. in music, a passage proposed to be answered as the subject of a fugue.
9. plural the earlier events or circumstances of one's life; one's origin, previous course, associations, conduct, or avowed principles.
10. in physical geography, noting rivers or streams which have persisted in their courses in spite of an uplift of the land: thus the meuse is an antecedent river, because it has persisted in its course by cutting a deep gorge through the uplifted area of the Ardennes.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
2. the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
3. anything that precedes something similar in time
4. a preceding occurrence or cause or event
5. preceding in time or order
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.