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Noun
/ˌantəˈsēdnt/,
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antecedents, plural;
  1. A thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another
    • - some antecedents to the African novel might exist in Africa's oral traditions
  2. A person's ancestors or family and social background
    • - her early life and antecedents have been traced
  3. A word, phrase, clause, or sentence to which another word (esp. a following relative pronoun) refers

  4. The statement contained in the “if” clause of a conditional proposition

  5. The first term in a ratio

  1. (antecedent) preceding in time or order
  2. (antecedent) ancestor: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
  3. (antecedent) anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
  4. (antecedent) the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
  5. Antecedents are the life history and previous convictions of a defendant in a criminal case. They are colloquially known as "previous convictions" (or simply "previous") in the U.K. and "prior convictions" (or simply "priors") in the United States and Australia.
  6. (Antecedent (genealogy)) In genealogy or in phylogenetic studies of evolutionary biology an antecedent, antecessor or antecedents are predecessors in a family line. I am the descendants of my grandparents, they are my antecedents. ...
  7. (Antecedent (grammar)) A common stylistic problem in writing, often leading to confusion, is the use of a pronoun for which the antecedent is not clear, as in the following example: I met John at Mike's party. He told me about his new friend.
  8. (Antecedent (logic)) An antecedent is the first half of a hypothetical proposition.
  9. (antecedent) Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing; An ancestor; A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun; The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; Earlier, either in time or order
  10. Antecedent is a part of association. When association is determined between two events, the first event is called antecedent. For example "If customer buys pizza he also buys bear or lemonade in 89% cases", here "buys pizza" is the antecedent.
  11. (Antecedent) The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. In the sentence, “Bill told Alexandra that he was most fond of ice weasels and their tricks,” the word Bill is the antecedent of the pronoun he.
  12. (Antecedent) An event that precedes another one. Respondent behaviors are responses to antecedent events.
  13. The antecedent of a rule is its left-hand side, that is, the first argument to the #$implies connective with which the rule begins. Intuitively, every rule states that if the antecedent is true, then the consequent must be true.
  14. (Antecedent) A factor that precedes and is associated with a specific outcome — but does not necessarily cause the outcome. For example, living in a community with a high unemployment rate is an antecedent of adolescent pregnancy.
  15. (Antecedent) An environmental condition present before a targeted behavior is exhibited. Antecedents are often considered when running either a functional behavior assessment or a functional behavior analysis.
  16. (Antecedent) Conditions present prior to the behavior in question. Antecedents that influence operant behavior are either discriminative stimuli, which evoke the behavior, or, function altering stimuli of some kind that change the evocative capacity of the discriminative stimulus (this can ...
  17. (Antecedent) From the Latin words cedo meaning to come and ante meaning before. An antecedent is a word or idea to which a pronoun is referring. For example: Betty is a friend of mine. We all like her. ...
  18. (Antecedent) In a conditional claim, the subsidiary claim before the arrow, or immediately after the word "if."
  19. (Antecedent) That which proceeds.
  20. (Antecedent) The 'A' in the 'ABC's of behavior'. This refers to anything present in the animal's environment that evokes or facilitates a behavior.
  21. (Antecedent) What fantasy or plan, or both, did the murderer have in place before the act? What triggered the murderer to act some days and not others?
  22. (Antecedent) a word, phrase or clause that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute in the same sentence or in another sentence.
  23. (Antecedent) existed before the cultural landscape emerged (e.g., Malaysia/Indonesia)
  24. (Antecedent) interventions that are implemented before a target behaviour is likely to occur.
  25. (Antecedent) the first voice in a canon