successor

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successor - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           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.
     [1913 Webster]

successor - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  successor
      n 1: a person who follows next in order; "he was President
           Lincoln's successor" [syn: successor, replacement]
      2: a thing or person that immediately replaces something or
         someone
      3: a person who inherits some title or office [syn: successor,
         heir]

successor - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  daughter
  child
  successor
  
     <mathematics, data> (Or "child", "successor") In a tree, a
     node pointed to by a parent, i.e. another node closer to
     the root node.
  
     (1998-11-14)
  

  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)
  

successor - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  SUCCESSOR. One who follows or comes into the place of another. 
       2. This term is applied more particularly to a sole corporation, or to 
  any corporation. The word heir is more correctly applicable to a common 
  person who takes an estate by descent. 12 Pick. R. 322; Co. Litt. 8 b. 
       3. It is also used to designate a person who has been appointed or 
  elected to some office, after another person. 
  
  

successor - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "successor":
     adherent, aftermath, apparent heir, appendage, attendant,
     backup man, beneficiary heir, buff, cavaliere servente, conclusion,
     consequence, coparcener, courtier, dangler, dependent, descendant,
     disciple, dynasty, effect, fan, fideicommissary heir,
     fiduciary heir, flunky, follower, following, hanger-on, heir,
     heir apparent, heir expectant, heir general, heir in tail,
     heir of entail, heir of inventory, heir of line, heir portioner,
     heir presumptive, heir whatsoever, heiress, henchman, heritor,
     homme de cour, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, joint heir,
     line, lineage, next in line, offspring, orphan, parasite, partisan,
     posterity, presumptive heir, public, pursuer, pursuivant, relict,
     remainderman, replacement, reversioner, satellite, sectary, sequel,
     shadow, stooge, supporter, survivor, tagtail, tail, trainbearer,
     votary, ward heeler, widow, widower