English Dictionary

antecedent

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌantɪˈsiːdənt/

名詞

複数形

Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing. / An ancestor. / (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.

日本語の意味

何かがある他のものに先立つもの、特に後者の原因となるもの / 先祖 / 文法において、代名詞などが指す語句（先行詞）

The antecedent event in the records helped researchers identify the chain of failures that led to the blackout.

記録にある前因が、停電につながった一連の故障を研究者たちが特定する手がかりになった。

意味（1）

Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.

意味（2）

An ancestor.

The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company.

意味（3）

(grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.

[W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who is appropriated to persons, so that should have been appropriated to things […] the antecedent of that is often personal

意味（4）

(logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.

意味（5）

(logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.

意味（6）

(mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.

意味（7）

(chiefly in the plural) Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.

antecedents （ plural ）