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coreferent

coreferent adjective: referring to the same thing.

Adjective

coreferent (not comparable)

  1. Referring to the same thing.
    • Syntactic constraints included recognizing structures such as appositive constructions and i-within-i filter, which prevents parent noun phrases in a parse tree from being coreferent with any of children.2016 March 3, “Bio-SCoRes: A Smorgasbord Architecture for Coreference Resolution in Biomedical Text”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Noun

coreferent (plural coreferents)

  1. Any of two or more things jointly referred to.

Forms of coreferent

pluralcoreferents

Origin of coreferent

From co- + referent.

Questions about coreferent

What does coreferent mean?
Coreferent means referring to the same thing.
What part of speech is coreferent?
Coreferent can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near coreferent in the dictionary

  1. Coree
  2. Coreen
  3. corefer
  4. coreference
  5. coreferences
  6. coreferent
  7. coreferential
  8. coreferentiality
  9. coreferentially
  10. coreferents
  11. coreferred

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