predecessor

Predecessor stands for:

• Predecessor , an element that precedes the reference element in a sequence; see successor (mathematics)
• Predecessor , relationship of two nodes in a directed graph; see neighborhood (graph theory)
• Predecessor , in German Judaism from around the 16th to at least the middle of the 19th century term for the head of a Jewish community; see also Barnos and Shtadlan

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Wiktionary: predecessors  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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