predecessor
IPA: prˈɛdʌsɛsɝ
noun
- One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
- A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
- (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
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Examples of "predecessor" in Sentences
- He was the predecessor of this academy.
- The show was the predecessor of Top Gear.
- This was the predecessor of the polygraph test.
- It was the predecessor to the Colossus computer.
- The predecessor of the school was founded in 1907.
- The mobile pod is the predecessor of the mobile suit.
- The Russian Ferederation is the predecessor of the Soviet Union.
- The article asserts that NSFNet was the predecessor of the internet.
- It was the most important and widespread predecessor to the madrigal.
- For the governors of the colonial predecessors of the Commonwealth, see.