1. (Business) smart software which may be used in an exchange or auction to supervise prices and terms in the name of buyer and supplier and at times to execute trades in an automatic manner* Noun1. an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect; their research uncovered new disease agents
(hypernym) causal agent, cause, causal agency
(hyponym) vasoconstrictor, vasoconstrictive
2. a substance that exerts some force or effect
(hypernym) causal agent, cause, causal agency
(hyponym) antiflatulent
3. a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations
(hypernym) representative
(hyponym) business agent
4. a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
(synonym) factor, broker
(hypernym) businessperson, bourgeois
(hyponym) auctioneer
(member-holonym) brokerage, brokerage firm, securities firm
5. any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau
(synonym) federal agent
(hypernym) official, functionary
(hyponym) Indian agent
6. the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the hapening denoted by the verb in the clause
(synonym) agentive role
(hypernym) semantic role, participant role* < networking> 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 automatic process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
(1995-04-09) |
