successor

Noun
Synonyms: replacementheir

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  1. a person who follows next in order“he was President Lincoln's successor”Synonyms: replacement
  2. a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone
  3. a person who inherits some title or officeSynonyms: heir
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

daughter child successor

<mathematics, data> (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)

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)

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