(a.) Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
(a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting
for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
(a.) Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as
deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
(a.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of
the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
(a.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and
habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and
varieties.
(a.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was
originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties;
representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
(n.) One who, or that which, represents (anything); that
which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
(n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the
place of another, or others, being invested with his or their
authority.
(n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of,
another.
(n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State
legislature, or in the national Congress.
(n.) That which presents the full character of the type
of a group.
(n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes
the place of a similar one in another region.
