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It can be used when referring to something that serves as a point of reference or comparison to another. For example, "The new model car is a referent for the classic model."
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I, too, love "Seinfeld," but is there not a problem when the show is cited as a referent for one's Jewish identity?
If ever there was a referent for nullity, it is the Karoo: miles of nothing; very little, apparently, going on; a stillness so profound it resounds in the ears.
Of course, the idea isn't unheard of among practitioners of Lidell's general age and type (Squarepusher made his slap-funk bass guitar skills a feature of his performance, while Chilly Gonzales fronted his own electronic compositions as The Worst MC), but it's hard to find a referent for anyone who's gone for it in quite the same way.
It's having meaning cannot, therefore, depend on there being a referent for the apparent subject expression.
Second, there was the problem of establishing a referent for such claims as "Adam was in Paradise" or "Adam is dead".
Estonia is a referent for the largest share of the potential increase for all three outputs, with far the biggest referencing of the high technology exports (70 %); Slovenia is ranked in the second place (Fig. 3).
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It is this sort of constructionist account that offers the possibility of a social referent for a term construed on a causal theory of reference, as noted below (see Mallon 2006).
2006 was used as a referent year for citation analysis to allow for enough time for the journal items to generate citations.
The standard drug Sildenafil citrate was used as a referent only for quantitative comparison and not for mechanistic purpose.
As a group, these studies differed in their selection of a referent group for exposure, in their ability to control for potential confounding, and in their assessment of exposure during the third trimester or late stages of pregnancy.
The use of Bayesian hierarchical modeling allowed for the estimation and graphing of all effects on the absolute scale, which has more direct public health relevance and allows for direct comparison between groups without having to specify a referent group for the contrast parameter.
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