"subagent" meaning in English

See subagent in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌsʌbˈeɪ̯.d͡ʒənt/ [Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation], /ˌsɐbˈæɪ̯.d͡ʒənt/ [General-Australian, New-Zealand], /ˌsʌbˈe.d͡ʒənt/ [Scotland], /ˌsʌbˈe.d͡ʒʌnt/ [Scotland], /ˌsəbˈeː.d͡ʒenʈ/ [India] Forms: subagents [plural], sub-agent [alternative]
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  1. (law) A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business entrusted to the latter.
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  2. (computing) An autonomous process that is launched by and communicates with another agent in order to handle part of the task that is the objective of that other agent.
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Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0

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          "ref": "2003, Dwaine Snow, Thomas X. Phan, Advanced DBA Certification Guide and Reference for DB2 Universal Database v8:",
          "text": "On a UNIX system, the coordinating agent and subagent processes will have different names.",
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          "ref": "2006, Lydia Parziale, Dr. Wei Liu, Carolyn Matthews, TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, page 632:",
          "text": "An SNMP subagent supports its own MIB, which might be an RFC-architected MIV, or might be a proprietary (referered to as enterprise-specific) MIB. For example, a TCP/IP subagent would most likely support the IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, and Interface groups defined in RFC 1213.",
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          "ref": "2019, Frances Mahan, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Us:",
          "text": "Originally, the purpose of creating an AI subagent will be to enhance new horizons in protocol and use it to help protect human agents in the field.",
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        "An autonomous process that is launched by and communicates with another agent in order to handle part of the task that is the objective of that other agent."
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        "(computing) An autonomous process that is launched by and communicates with another agent in order to handle part of the task that is the objective of that other agent."
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        "mathematics",
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "sŭb′ā′jənt"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsʌbˈeɪ̯.d͡ʒənt/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsɐbˈæɪ̯.d͡ʒənt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian",
        "New-Zealand"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsʌbˈe.d͡ʒənt/",
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsʌbˈe.d͡ʒʌnt/",
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsəbˈeː.d͡ʒenʈ/",
      "tags": [
        "India"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪdʒənt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "subagent"
}

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