REPRESENTATIVE

Definitions

1. 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
2. 2. Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people. Swift.
3. 3. Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
4. 4. Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
5. 5. Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.
6. 6. Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.