parent (redirected from parentage)

parent

1. a father or mother

2. Rare an ancestor

3. 

a. an organism or organization that has produced one or more organisms or organizations similar to itself

b. (as modifier): a parent organism

4. Physics Chem

a. a precursor, such as a nucleus or compound, of a derived entity

b. (as modifier): a parent nucleus

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(mathematics, data)

parent - The ancestor node in a tree that points to the current node (one of its child nodes).