antecedent

Các nghĩa

1. tiền đề, nguyên nhân

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

   Alchemy was the antecedent of chemistry.

2. tiền bối

   An ancestor.

3. tiền ngữ

   A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.

4. tiền kiện

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

5. tiền đề

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

6. số hạng trước

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

Dạng khác

• antecedents plural