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The twenty-second letter of the .
cardinal number five (5).
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Image:Latin V.png, Capital and lowercase versions of V , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter V.png, Uppercase and lowercase V in Fraktur
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One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent ; as, heat is a powerful agent.
(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
(grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
As a letter v
is the twenty-second letter of the.As a symbol v
is the volt in the international system of units.As a noun agent is
agent (intermediary for certain services, such as for artistic performances or public relations).v
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=u, next=w, image=Etymology 1
Minuscule variation of Latin V, from seventh century Old Latin adoption of Old Italic letter .Letter
Etymology 2
Lower case form of upper case roman numeral V, from abbreviation of IIII? or IIIIV (representing 5), from tally stick markings resembling \\\\? or ////?, from the practice of designating each fifth notch with a double cut, like the corresponding Western tally mark,Alternative forms
* V,Numeral
See also
* Previous: iv (4) * Next: vi (6) *Etymology 3
Symbol
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{{Letter , page=V , NATO=Victor , Morse=···– , Character=V , Braille=? }}agent
English
(wikipedia agent)Noun
(en noun)- Heaven made us agents , free to good or ill. --Dryden.
- I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent , or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. --Herman Melville, , ch. 36