(definition)
Definition: A child of a node in a tree, any of the children of the children, etc.
See also ancestor.
Note: of a tree node
Author: PEB
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Entry modified Fri Dec 17 12:03:31 2004.
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Cite this as:
Paul E. Black, "descendant", from
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures, Paul E. Black, ed.,
NIST.
http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/descendant.html
