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• an entity that is capable of action
  Action
  
  Action may refer to:...
  
• someone (or something) who acts on behalf of another person or group.

In espionage and law enforcement:

• Secret agent
  Secret Agent
  
  Secret Agent is a 1936 in film United Kingdom film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham....
  , a spy a spy
• Double agent
  Double agent
  
  "Double agent" is a counterintelligence term for someone who pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization....
  , in spying
• Special agent
  Special agent
  
  Special agent is usually the title for a detective or investigator for either the United States United States Government or a state, county, municipal, or tribal government....
  , the usual title for a U.S. federal criminal or non-criminal investigator or detective.
• Agent provocateur
  Agent provocateur
  
  Traditionally, an agent provocateur is a person employed by the police or other entity to act undercover to entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act....
  , a person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another

In law:

• Agent (law)
  Agent (law)
  
  An Agent in Commercial Law is a person who is authorised to act on behalf of another to create a legal relationship with a Third Party. Section 182 of the [Indian] Contract Act, 1872 defines Agent as ?a person employed to do any act for another or to represent another in dealings with third persons?....
  : a person authorised to act on behalf of another person
• Patent agent, or patent attorney, a professional who represents and advises another in the assessment, securing and maintaining of intellectual property rights, with particular reference to patent
  Patent
  
  A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor or his assignee for a term of patent in exchange for a disclosure of an invention....
   rights.
• Tuition agent, a person who represents a tuition agency
  Tuition agency
  
  A tuition agency is a commercial organisation which specialises in introducing tutors to students requiring help in the academic area. Tuition agencies exist largely due to the problems parents and students face in finding a specialist who can help them with the study of one or more specific subjects....
   in searching for suitable tutor
  Tutor
  
  In British, Australian, New Zealand, Italian, and some Canadian university, a tutor is often but not always a postgraduate student or a lecturer assigned to conduct a seminar for undergraduate students, often known as a tutorial....
  s for students.
• Literary agent
  Literary agent
  
  A literary agent is an Agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same....
  , a person who represents a writer
• Theatrical agent
• Booking agent
• Sports agent
  Sports agent
  
  A sports agent is a person who procures and negotiates employment and endorsement deals for a Sportsperson. In return, the agent receives a commission that is usually between four and ten percent of the contract, although this figure varies....
  , a professional who represents an athlete
• Free agent
  Free agent
  
  In professional sports, a free agent is a team player whose contract with a team has expired, and the player is able to sign a contract with another team if that player is chosen....
  , a sports player who is out of contract
• Talent agent
  Talent agent
  
  A talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds jobs for actors, musicians, model , and other people in various entertainment businesses....
  , a person who finds jobs for actors, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses.
• Press agent
  Press agent
  
  A press agent, or flack, is a professional publicist who acts on behalf of his or her client on all matters involving public relations. Press agents are typically employed by public personalities and organizations such as performers and businesses....
  , publicist who acts on behalf of a client on all matters involving public relations
• Foreign agent
  Foreign agent
  
  A foreign agent is, in United States law, an entity registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.A foreign agent in Mobile IP is a router which stores information about mobile nodes visiting its network....
  , someone registered with the U.S. Justice Department as mandated by the Foreign Agents Registration Act
  Foreign Agents Registration Act
  
  The Foreign Agents Registration Act is a United States law passed in 1938 requiring information from foreign sources to be properly identified to the American public....
  
• Travel agent, makes vacation and travel arrangements
• Real estate broker
  Real estate broker
  
  A real estate broker is a term in the United States and Canada which describes a party who acts as an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate and attempts to find sellers who wish to sell and buyers who wish to buy....
  , or real estate agent
• Yacht broker
  Yacht broker
  
  A yacht broker is a specialist agent who acts as a representative for the sale of a yacht or boat. The yacht broker is paid an agreed commission the sale price of a yacht and to this end markets the yacht for sale, fields buyer interest and act as a ?middle man? in the negotiations....
  , or yacht agent
• Yacht charter broker, or yacht charter agent
• Election agent
  Election agent
  
  In elections in the United Kingdom, as well as in certain other similar political systems such as India's, an election agent is the person legally responsible for the conduct of a candidate's political campaign and to whom election material is sent to by those running the election....
  , a person responsible for a candidate's campaign

In finance:

• Agent, a financial institution acting as the operational intermediary in a syndicated loan
  Syndicated loan
  
  A syndicated loan is a large loan in which a group of banks provide funds for a borrower, usually several but without joint liability. There is usually a lead bank or group of banks that takes a percentage of the loan and syndicates or sells the rest to other banks....
   between the syndicate
  Syndicate
  
  Syndicate comes from the French language word syndicat which means trade union , from the Latin word syndicus which in turn comes from the Greek language word s??d???? which means caretaker of an issue, compare to ombudsman or Representation ....
   bank
  Bank
  
  A bank is a financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money. It is an institution for receiving, keeping, and lending money....
  s and the borrower
  Borrower
  
  In finance, a Borrower is the party in a loan agreement which receives money or other instrument from a lender and promises to repay the lender in a specified time....
  . The most common form is the "Administrative Agent".

In economics:

• Agent (economics)
  Agent (economics)
  
  In economics, an agent is an actor or decision maker in a Mathematical model. Typically, the actor makes decisions by solving an Optimization problem....
  , a player
  Player
  
  Player may refer to:* Player , slang term for a individual skilled at sexual seduction* Player , a participant in a game** Player character...
   in a game
  Game theory
  
  Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that is used in the social sciences , biology, engineering, political science, international relations, computer science , and philosophy....
   or model
  Model (economics)
  
  In economics, a model is a theory construct that represents economic Process by a set of variables and a set of logical and/or quantitative relationships between them....
  
• Homo economicus
  Homo economicus
  
  Homo economicus, or Economic human, is the concept in some economic theories of humans as Rationality and broadly self-interested actors who have the ability to make judgments towards their subjectively defined ends....
   is sometimes called a "rational agent"
• Rational agent
  Rational agent
  
  In economics, game theory, decision theory, and artificial intelligence, a rational agent is an agent which has clear preferences, models uncertainty via expected values, and always chooses to perform the action that results in the Optimization_ outcome for itself from among all feasible actions....
  , a person or firm that always chooses a course of action that is best for itself.
• Agent-Based Computational Economics
  Agent-Based Computational Economics
  
  Agent-based Computational Economics is the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents....
  , computational economic modeling based on interactions of intelligent agents
• Representative agent
  Representative agent
  
  Economists use the term representative agent to refer to the typical decision-maker of a certain type .More technically, an Model is said to have a representative agent if all Agent of the same type are identical....
  , a situation in which many agents act as if they were a single individual

In chemistry and warfare:

• Agent Orange
  Agent Orange
  
  Agent Orange is the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the United States armed forces in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War....
  , a herbicide
• Biological agent
  Biological agent
  
  A biological agent is an infectious disease or toxin that can be used in bioterrorism or biological warfare. There are more than 1200 different kinds of biological agents....
  , an infectious disease that can be used in biological warfare
• Chemical warfare
  Chemical warfare
  
  Chemical warfare involves using the poison of chemical substances as weapons to kill, injure, or incapacitate an Enemy .This type of warfare is distinct from the use of conventional weapons or nuclear weapons because the destructive effects of chemical weapons are not primarily due to their explosion force....
   agent, classified by their effect and include:
• Nerve agent
  Nerve agent
  
  Nerve agents, also referred to as nerve gases though these chemicals are liquid at room temperature, are a class of phosphorus-containing organic chemistry that disrupt the mechanism by which nerves transfer messages to organs....
  
• Blister agent
  Blister agent
  
  A blister agent is a chemical compound that causes severe skin, eye and mucosal pain and irritation. They are named for their ability to cause severe chemical burns, resulting in large, painful water blisters on the bodies of those affected....
  
• Blood agent
  Blood agent
  
  A blood agent or cyanogen agent is a chemical compound, carried by the blood for distribution through the body. Blood agents may contain the cyanide, which can inactivate the energy-producing cytochrome c oxidase enzymes of cells in the body....
  
• Pulmonary agent
  Pulmonary agent
  
  A pulmonary agent is a chemical weapon agent designed to impede a victim's ability to Respiratory system. They operate by causing a build-up of fluids in the lungs which then leads to...
  
• Incapacitating agent
  Incapacitating agent
  
  The term incapacitating agent is defined by the U.S. Department of Defense asLethal agents are primarily intended to kill, but supposedly nonlethal incapacitating agents can kill many of those exposed to them....
  
• Riot control agent
  Riot control agent
  
  Riot control agents are less-lethal lachrymatory agents used for riot control. Most commonly used riot control agents are pepper spray and various kinds of tear gas....
  .

In linguistics:

• Agent (grammar)
  Agent (grammar)
  
  In linguistics, a grammatical agent is the participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation. Also, agent is the name of the thematic role with the above definition....
  , one of the thematic roles: the participant of a situation that carries out an action. Replaces "subject" in placement typology.
• Agent noun
  Agent noun
  
  In linguistics, an agent noun is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action , and that identifies an entity that does that action....
   (or nomen agentis), one of the derivatemes (a topic from linguistic morphology)

In computer science and artificial intelligence:

• Software agent
  Software agent
  
  In computer science, a software agent is a piece of software that acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agent. Such "action on behalf of" implies the authority to decide which action is appropriate....
  , software that acts on behalf of a user
• Forté Agent
  Forté Agent
  
  Fort? Agent is an email and Usenet news client used on the Microsoft Windows operating system. Agent was conceived, designed and developed by Mark Sidell and the team at Fort? Internet Software in 1994 to address the need for an online/offline newsreader which capitalized on the emerging Windows GUI framework....
  , a newsreader and email client
• User agent
  User agent
  
  A user agent is the client application used with a particular network protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access the World Wide Web, but other systems such as Session Initiation Protocol use the term user agent to refer to the user's phone....
  , a client application used with a particular network protocol
• Intelligent agent
  Intelligent agent
  
  In artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent is an autonomous entity which observes and acts upon an environment and directs its activity towards achieving goals ....
  , any entity that is capable of perceiving its environment and carrying out goal-directed action.

In fiction:

• Agent 212
  Agent 212
  
  Agent 212 is the name of a humorous Franco-Belgian comics about a fat police officer. The scripts are written by Raoul Cauvin, and Daniel Kox illustrates....
  , a Belgian comic
• Agent
  Agent (The Matrix)
  
  Agents are a group of characters in the Matrix series. They are sentient programs, displaying high-level AI, and are representatives, or "Agents", of the main antagonists within the Matrix fictional universe....
  s, characters in The Matrix
• The Agent (film)
  The Agent (film)
  
  The Agent is a 1922 in film film featuring Oliver Hardy....
  , a 1922 film
• Secret Agent (1936 film), a 1936 film
• The Agents, superhuman characters in Seven Samurai 20XX
  Seven Samurai 20XX
  
  is a PlayStation 2 game released by Sega Sammy Holdings in 2004. Its story and concept are based upon Akira Kurosawa's 1954 in film movie Seven Samurai....
  
• Agent 47, a character from the computer game series Hitman
  Hitman (computer game series)
  
  Hitman is a stealth game series video game developer by the Denmark company IO Interactive, now a division of Eidos Interactive. The series is available on personal computer as well as several video game consoles, including the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Xbox 360....
  
• Agents, rogue killers from the novel T.O.M. tom

In popular culture:

• Polish version of The Mole.
• Culture Jammer: First appearing in Wisconsin circa 2004, A group of individuals known only as "Agent" began distributing anti-establishment propaganda and guerrilla marketing campaigns statewide. In recent years, the work of "Agent" has been seen in areas as far as Tennessee, New york, Colorado, and Florida.

See also

• Agent architecture
  Agent architecture
  
  In computer science, agent architecture is a blueprint for software agents and intelligent control systems, depicting the arrangement of components....
  
• Agent based model
  Agent based model
  
  An agent-based model is a computational model for computer simulation the actions and interactions of autonomous individuals in a network, with a view to assessing their effects on the system as a whole....
  
• Robot
  Robot
  
  A robot is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an Electromechanics which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has Intention or Agency of its own....
  
• bot
  Bot
  
  selfref|For bot operation on Wikipedia, see...
  
• personoid
  Personoid
  
  Personoid is the concept coined by Stanislaw Lem , a Polish science-fiction writer. His personoids are an abstraction of functions of human mind and they live in computers; they do not need any human-like physical body....