(definition)
Definition: The distinguished initial or fundamental item of a tree. The only item which has no parent. See the figure at tree.
See also leaf.
Author: PEB
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Entry modified Fri Dec 17 12:07:20 2004.
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Cite this as:
Paul E. Black, "root", from
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures, Paul E. Black, ed.,
NIST.
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