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successor

[suh

k-ses-er]

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noun

a person or thing that succeeds or follows.

a person who succeeds another in an office, position, or the like.

Origin:
1250–1300; < Latin, equivalent to succed-, variant stem of succēdere to succeed + -tor -tor, with dt > ss; replacing Middle English successour < Anglo-French < Latin, as above

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suc·ces·sor·al, adjective

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successor (səkˈsɛsə)

—n
1.	a person or thing that follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
2.	logic the element related to a given element by a serial ordering, esp the natural number next larger to a given one. The successor of n is n + 1, usually written Sn or n′

suc'cessoral

—*adj*

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SuccessoR definition

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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