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antecedent | American Dictionary

antecedent
noun[ Cusually pl ]
us/ˌæn·təˈsi·dənt/
something existing or happening before, esp. as the cause of an event or situation:
The book dealt with the historical antecedents of the Civil War.
grammar
An antecedent is also a word or phrase that a pronoun refers to:
In the sentence, "Joe threw the ball to Wendy, and Wendy threw it back," "the ball" is the antecedent of "it."
mathematics
An antecedent is also the part of a conditional statement that follows the word "if."

Examples of antecedent

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In writing rules we omit set notation for antecedents and sometimes we omit the label when it is not relevant for the context.
Research on mass politics seeks to identify the antecedents of citizens' political attitudes and behaviours.
First, there is the problem of disjunctive antecedents, as in (4).
Thus, reflexives with such antecedents and their interpretation are primarily syntactically-based, just as local reflexives are.
However, those rules consisting of a large number of antecedents may be worth examining as they may refer either to noise or a special case.
Rule-based patterns are composed of a number of primitive patterns (antecedents) connected together with logical connectives that imply, if true, the target class (consequent).
By the same token, different effects imply different causal antecedents.
Who gained ground with those in cataphora only once it had been established as the relative for personal antecedents.
Obstetric complications as antecedents of schizophrenia : empirical effects of using different obstetric complication scales.
Because of their important political effects, there has been plenty of research on the antecedents of political predispositions.
Competencies such as technical capabilities, skills and knowledge are also necessary antecedents for the building of trust in the professional setting of business exchange.
The harsh antiparty politics and discourse of the 1973 military dictatorship had proximate historical antecedents.
Examples (9), (10) and (11a) are all cases of split antecedents.
The following examples involve a variety of quantified antecedents (including, notably, the negative quantifier no).
The ultimate achievement of cognitive archaeology would be to provide descriptions of the cognitive life-world of human antecedents at many points in evolution.
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