Sentence examples for the referent from inspiring English sources
noun
The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.
Interobserver agreement was assessed for cervicography and the referent diagnosis.
In any case, Nobunaga's rise is the referent event for the start of the period.
This allows an optimization between the form (i.e. the 'traditional' symbol) and the referent.
Sometimes the referent is one that most of Monica Ali's readers will have to try to imagine.
The more visual the referent, the less difficulty the users had in illustrating it.
Strength of identification with the referent group was measured (Study 1) or manipulated (Study 2).
Does it follow that whoever discovered the incompleteness of arithmetic is the referent of "Gödel"?
"The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent," the philosopher Roland Barthes wrote.
The referent is new ex stipulatione.
Its core value is the address of the referent.
But they disagree about the referent of this expression.
