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agentless

agentless adjective: without an agent.

Adjective

agentless (not comparable)

  1. Without an agent.
    • Maybe it’s not “American Idol,” but two agentless novelists have been plucked from obscurity and were anointed the winners yesterday of “First Chapters,” a writing contest sponsored by Simon & Schuster, the Borders Group and the social media site Gather.com .2007 May 31, “Arts, Briefly”, in New York Times
    • Ansible is agentless and you do not need to install any kind of agents on the managed nodes.2022, Gineesh Madapparambath, Ansible for Real-Life Automation, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 7

Origin of agentless

From agent + -less.

Words formed from agentless

Questions about agentless

What does agentless mean?
Agentless means without an agent.
What part of speech is agentless?
Agentless is an adjective.

Words near agentless in the dictionary

  1. agentively
  2. agentiveness
  3. agentives
  4. agentivity
  5. agentization
  6. agentless
  7. agentlessness
  8. agentlike
  9. agentries
  10. agentry
  11. agents

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