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One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
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An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
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One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.
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The ancestors of a chain letter are its parents, parents of the parents, parents of . . .etc.
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An entity from which another entity is descended.
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a person from whom you descend;grandparents, great-grandparents, 2nd great-grandparents (also called great great- grandparents), 3rd great-grandparents, etc.;direct-line ancestor; forefather; forebear.
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the original program(s) (parents) that contributes its code (gene) to the new program generated (child).
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one from whom an individual is descended; First Humans
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one from whom a person is descended; forerunner.
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A class or parent that contributes (via inheritance) to the definition of an object. For class-based hierarchies, the ancestors of an object are its class(es) and all the superclasses of its class(es). For prototype-based hierarchies, the ancestors of an object are its parent(s) and the ancestors of its parent(s).
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A procedure that calls the given procedure, either directly or through another procedure or procedures. Contrast with parent.
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A group of organisms from which other groups are descended.
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someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
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an element that contains another element or a hierarchy of other elements
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a parent Parenting comprises all the tasks involved in raising a child to an independent adult
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a person from whom you are descended - parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents and so on
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a relative from long ago, like your Great, Great Grandma
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a subfolder that /// is beneath the root folder in the namespace hierarchy
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A class whose definition is inherited by a descendant.
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a person from whom one is descended, especially anyone earlier in a family line than a grandparent.
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One from whom a person is descended, whether through father or mother. Also can mean one from whom an estate has descended.
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someone from an earlier generation-for example, a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent.
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A person from whom one is descended; forefather.
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1. A tree data structure term that means some node in the succession of parent nodes on a path to the root. i.e., a node's parent and parent's parent are both ancestors of the node. 2. A reserved Lingo script property that can be used to establish inheritance.
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Ancestors of a library unit are itself, its parent, its parent's parent, and so on. (Standard is an ancestor of every library unit).
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A person from whom you directly descend e.g. grandparents, great-grandparents, great great- grandparents and so on.
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One who sits above someone on his or her family tree eg: a parent or grandparent.
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A person from whom you are descended in a direct line
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The creature used to initialize the population in an avida run.
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a person from whom one is descended, especially if more remote than a grandparent; a forebear
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A person from whom you are descended; a forefather
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An ancestor of a segment is a segment that refers, either directly or indirectly, to a given segment. If segment 1 contains a call_segment element referencing segment 2, and segment 2 contains a call_segment element referencing segment 3, both segments 1 and 2 would be ancestors of segment 3. Segment 2 would also be the parent segment of segment 3. Compare descendant.
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A value at any level higher than a given value in a hierarchy. For example, in a Time dimension, the value 1999 might be the ancestor of the values Q1-99 and Jan-99. See Also: hierarchy and level
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a person you have descended from.
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Any person from whom another person is directly descended, for example, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and so on.
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a person from whom a person descends; such as a mother, father, grandparent, etc. Ancestors came before you.
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A member of your family who lived a long time ago, usually before your grandparents.
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An ancestor node of any node A is any node above A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root."
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one from whom a person is descended and who is usually more remote in the line of descent than a grandparent.
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In a rooted tree, a vertex on the path from the root to the vertex. Vertex v is an ancestor of vertex w if and only if w is a descendant of v.
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A value at any level higher than a given value in a hierarchy. For example, in a Time dimension, the value 2002 might be the ancestor of the values Q1-02 and Jan-02. In a dimension hierarchy, the data value of the ancestor is the aggregated value of the data values of its descendants. Contrast with descendant. See also hierarchy, level, parent.
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Any organism, population, or species from which some other organism, population, or species is descended by reproduction.
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An ancestor of a replicator L is (1) a parent of L, or (2) a parent of an ancestor.
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Person from whom another person is descended, for example, a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent
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An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, and so on).
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