The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Successor \Suc*ces"sor\, n. [OE. successour, OF. successur,
   successor, F. successeur, L. successor. See Succeed.]
   One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which
   another has left, and sustains the like part or character; --
   correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased
   king. --Chaucer.
   [1913 Webster]

         A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of
         chattels, without naming their successors, vests an
         absolute property in them so lond as the corporation
         subsists.                                --Blackstone.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

successor
    n 1: a person who follows next in order; "he was President
         Lincoln's successor" [syn: successor, replacement]
    2: a thing or person that immediately replaces something or
       someone
    3: a person who inherits some title or office [syn: successor,
       heir]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

daughter
child
successor

    (Or "child", "successor") In a tree, a
   node pointed to by a parent, i.e. another node closer to
   the root node.

   (1998-11-14)


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

SuccessoR

   A language for distributed computing derived from SR.

   ["SuccessoR: Refinements to SR", R.A. Olsson et al, TR 84-3, U
   Arizona 1984].

   (1994-12-15)