One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.

A parent means a natural or adoptive parent of a child; a guardian, (but not the state if the child is a ward of the state); a person acting in the place of a parent (such as a grandparent or stepparent with whom the child lives, or a person who is legally responsible for the child's welfare; or a surrogate parent who has been appointed in accordance with the steps outline in this handbook.

A biological or adoptive mother or father, or a legal guardian or custodian.

The mother or father whose relationship has been presumed by the criteria cited in the Uniform Parentage Act [WAC 388-254-0010]. For TANF, references to parent include adoptive parents and stepparents as relatives and members of the assistance unit. See: Living in the Home of a Relative or Legal Guardian

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

From XML Path Language (XPath) ( 1999-11-16) Every node other than the root node has exactly one parent, which is either an element node or the root node.

The next higher level NODE in the TREE hierarchy.

A procedure that directly calls the given procedure. Contrast with ancestor.

A node with other nodes reporting to it

A radionuclide that upon decay yields a specified nuclide (the daughter) either directly or as a later member of a radioactive decay series.

3/4 Of a nuclide, that radioactive nuclide from which it is formed by decay.

nucleus which, in cell division, divides, and gives rise to two or more daughter nuclei.

A radionuclide that decays to another nuclide which may be either radioactive or stable.

In an XML structure, an element in a level directly above another.

The next item above the current item or element in the strategy map or organisation chart

the name of the data element under which a given data element may occur. A parent element may be an extended or a standard element.

an element that is directly above another element and encloses the other element.

Chain letter L is a parent of letter C if C is a copy of L.

a link in a chain of progress towards a mysterious, yet enticing end

Second oldest copy of a file. 12.21 Parker, D., 12.26

Chain letter L is a parent of letter C if half or more of the text of L is copied onto C.

In a firm that has one or more subsidiaries, especially a multinational corporation, the portion of the firm that owns and ultimately controls the others.

a company that controls effectively other companies, and the other companies are subsidiaries

an enterprise that has one or more subsidiaries

an entity that has one or more subsidiaries

An object's parent is the item that it is currently inside or possessed by. The parent of the object that represents the player is the location they are currently in.

An object that is extended by another object.

commit object contains a (possibly empty) list of the logical predecessor(s) in the line of development, i.e. its parents. Ancestry information can be changed (faked) using grafts.

A parent is a corporation, partnership, or individual that directly or indirectly owns, controls or holds with power to vote more than 50% of the outstanding voting securities of a pure captive insurance company.

Corporation. A corporation that owns at least a majority of another corporation's voting securities.

A "parent" of a specified person is an affiliated person who controls the specified person directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries.