агент — meaning in English
agent
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English meaning
- agent noun A person who acts on behalf of another, especially in business or legal matters.
- factor noun One of several things that contributes to or influences a result.
- infiltrator noun One who infiltrates an organization or territory; an undercover or covert agent.
- spy noun A person who secretly gathers information about others, often for a government or rival organization.
Senses
агент is used for these senses in English:
- agent One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them.
- agent Someone who works for an intelligence agency: whether an officer or employee thereof or anyone else who agrees to help their efforts (for ideology, for money, as blackmailee, or otherwise).
- agent (computing) 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 autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
- factor (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
- infiltrator One who infiltrates an organization or territory; an undercover or covert agent.
- spy (espionage) A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
agent — full definition
- noun A person who acts on behalf of another, especially in business or legal matters.
- noun A person who works, often secretly, for a government or intelligence organization.
- noun A substance or force that produces an effect.
factor — full definition
- noun One of several things that contributes to or influences a result.
- noun A number that divides evenly into another number.
- verb To rewrite a mathematical expression as a product of simpler terms, or to find the numbers that divide it evenly.
- verb To take something into account when making a decision.