(definition)
Definition: A parent of a node in a tree, the parent of the parent, etc.
See also descendant.
Author: PEB
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Entry modified Fri Dec 17 12:02:09 2004.
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Cite this as:
Paul E. Black, "ancestor", from
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures, Paul E. Black, ed.,
NIST.
http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/ancestor.html
