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grandfather [′gran‚fathยทər]
(computer science)
A data set that is two generations earlier than the data set under consideration.


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Now Gramps has known an instructor or two over the years who liked to use their kneeboards for other than their intended purpose--heck, I even fought the impulse to chuck mine into the front cockpit at the occasional conehead what needed a fast erect, as it were--but I ain't never seen nobody try to use one as a switch flicker.
``When you've got a veteran team, you don't really have to worry about that too much,'' Mojave coach Walter Gramps said.
Creech utilizes multiple storytellers, in part by having Sal, Gram, and Gramps tell stories, and she underscores the significance of storytelling through subtle details.
 
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