The member (or concept) that is one level up in a concept hierarchy from another member. The parent value is usually a consolidation of all of its children's values.

bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"

a guardian who is supposed to raise their children, not just pop them out and let them run wild and free

a member with a consolidation branch below it

a teacher and guide for their children on how to live with values

A widget that manages and determines the layout of its children. In Sun WorkShop Visual, parent widgets are shown above their children in the design hierarchy.

an entity that contains, "owns", or was responsible for creating any number of children.

A member in the next higher level in a hierarchy that is directly related to the current member. The parent value is usually a consolidation of the values of all of its children. For example, in a Time dimension containing the levels Quarter, Month, and Day, Qtr1 is the parent of January.

relationship indicating a large umbrella project containing subprojects (children). See also Relationships

A process is the parent of processes that it has spawned.

Categories and containers may have other categories or containers as their parents. Categories and containers lie directly below their primary parent in the category hierarchy. Depending on the way that each container (and the site's global settings) is configured, categories and containers may have zero, one, or many parents. A category's parent is different to its enclosing container, although a category often has its enclosing container as its primary parent.

Is a process, frame, class or window that has spawned derivative frames, windows, processes, classes or children.

widget's parent is the container inside which it resides.