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successor 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 nʹ successor [sək′ses·ər] (mathematics) For a vertexain a directed graph, any vertexbfor which there is an arc betweenaandbdirected fromatob. For a positive integer,n, the next integer,n+ 1. Also known as consequent.
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The reader, who has perused the two former works, of which this is the natural successor, will recognise an old acquaintance in the principal character of the story. In the Preface to its next successor, Little Dorrit, I have still to repeat the same words. Geniuses are rare and, without being at all an undue praiser of times past, one can say without hesitation that until the appearance of Hugh Lofting, the successor of Miss Yonge, Mrs. |
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