(linguistics) An expression referring to another expression. In stricter uses, an expression referring to something earlier in the discourse or, even more strictly, only reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.
Used in a Sentence
anaphor
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for anaphor.
Editorial note
I use my real name [Accessing anaphor's HN user profile, which is basically blank] Your real name is anaphor?
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Quick take
(linguistics) An expression referring to another expression. In stricter uses, an expression referring to something earlier in the discourse or, even more strictly, only reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for anaphor.
noun
(linguistics) An expression referring to another expression. In stricter uses, an expression referring to something earlier in the discourse or, even more strictly, only reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.
Example sentences
I use my real name [Accessing anaphor's HN user profile, which is basically blank] Your real name is anaphor?
In it he describes an anaphor for augmented reality rooted in pagan animism.
We're working on anaphor resolution and better disambiguation but have a lot of work to do there.
To clarify for some who might not be aware of the difference: anaphor is referring to a guitarist named John Williams, not the composer.
It has little mathematical content and as anaphor pointed out in a sibling comment is is not even an accurate portrayal of Russel's and his contemporaries lives.
I'm guessing the answers are always article titles, and you look for articles that have a neat leading summary which is easy to perform anaphor-substitution on.
I wasn't avoiding mentioning it out of fear, I just thought that the three links in the parent would be sufficient for people to resolve the anaphor.
@anaphor: huh, reading about currying again, you're right.
This has been covered by anaphor, but to respond to the question directly: No, a prime number, for example 5, is not the product of 1 and itself (at least, no more than it's the product of 1/3 and 15).
- what kind of analysis, in layman's terms (Layman: somebody who's implmeented Lucene, sphinx, the search engine, not CMU sphinx, MySQL fulltext search, not an NLP researcher) From the company name, i would assume anaphor resolution is included, or something related, named entity resolution.
Quote examples
Also, as others have pointed out, the particular anaphor you'd use here is "they" which is (generally) plural.
You can't take a "pay one", but I get how to read it now---it's like an anaphor for the word.
The technical term is an anaphor, basically a "syntactic variable" pronoun that stands in for a previous noun phrase in subject or object position.
An anaphor (like "it") is such a referring term.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use anaphor in a sentence?
I use my real name [Accessing anaphor's HN user profile, which is basically blank] Your real name is anaphor?
What does anaphor mean?
(linguistics) An expression referring to another expression. In stricter uses, an expression referring to something earlier in the discourse or, even more strictly, only reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.
What part of speech is anaphor?
anaphor is commonly used as noun.