lineage
- noun
- /ˈlɪniɪdʒ/
- Specialized
- Genetic analysis identified at least seven circulating lineages localized to specific geographic regions.
- evolutionary lineage
- strain lineage
- trace its lineage
Examples
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The PNC traces its ideological lineage to Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana.
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The data scientists documented the lineage of the dataset to ensure transparency in its transformations.
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In that you can sort of draw a lineage of HP and Intel and Microsoft and Google and Facebook and so on.
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With absolute progress, in contrast, life improves on the whole, even among evolutionary lineages.
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The importance of the emergence of altruism and morality through the evolutionary lineage of mammals cannot be emphasized enough.
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The Due Process Clause traces its lineage to Article 39 of Magna Carta.
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Since the mid-1900s, debutante balls promote family lineage as marriage-eligible girls are presented to society.
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The emergence of new genetic lineages might be the reason for the increasing activity of EV68 (5, 13).
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To understand the lineage of this dataset, we analyzed how it has changed through various systems.
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They documented the lineage of the software to track its origins and adaptations over time.
Synonyms
The place or early history that shows where an object comes from
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lineage in computing keeps the same idea of a 'line' but for data: it shows the line or 'path' of a dataset as it moves and changes through systems. So data lineage is the recorded story of where the data came from and what happened to it.