descendant
4
6.8
- noun
- /dɪˈsɛndənt/
- Specialized
:
descendiente
- When working with data structures, it's important to understand how to traverse to a node's descendant in a graph.
- direct descendant
- ill-constructed descendants
- unsingable descendant
So your slash user and its descendants could be on a separate disk, physical disk.
- So your slash user and its descendants could be on a separate disk, physical disk.
Examples
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So it has to be direct descendant in order to be a forward edge.
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I want to compare an ancient malaria with its modern descendant.
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So this tree as we're building, identifying all the descendants becomes huge.
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Accounting reports are represented by instances of the report object class, which is a descendant of the dictionary class.
Academic text (1992) -
The political attitude common in the films, plays, and broadcast media of today is a descendant of the rigid leftism that once ruled the arts.
Academic text (2011) -
Hermeneutics is the philosophical descendant of phenomenology in this regard.
Academic text (1997) -
Lake Malawi may be monophyletic, but it has had time to produce several distinct descendant lineages.
Academic text (1992) -
Neither Malthus nor his spiritual descendants accept the Darwinian concept of adaptation or the potential impact of improvements in technology.
Academic text (1992) -
But as these Irish immigrants sank roots in American society, their descendants prospered and became part of the essential fabric of American life.
Academic text (2011) -
In a binary tree, each node has at least one descendant that can be reached by following child links.
How Distant
- Specialized
2
7.7
- Specialized
4
6.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word descendant keeps its original image from Latin descendere, with de- 'down' and scendere 'to climb'. Think of a family tree: in computing a descendant is any element below another one that you reach by going down through child links.