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successor |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: successor n 1: a person who follows; "he is President Bush's successor" [syn: {replacement}] 2: a person or thing that succeeds another 3: a person who inherits some title or office [syn: {heir}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: successor {daughter} From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: 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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