successor : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: successor	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for successor
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
successor n a person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor" Synonym(s): successor, replacement a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone a person who inherits some title or office Synonym(s): successor, heir
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Successor \Succes"sor\, n. [OE. successour, OF. successur, successor, F. successeur, L. successor. See {Succeed}.] One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor* of a deceased king. --Chaucer. A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without naming their successors, vests an absolute property in them so lond as the corporation subsists. --Blackstone.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
SuccessoR A language for {distributed computing} derived from {SR}. ["SuccessoR: Refinements to SR", R.A. Olsson et al, TR 84-3, U Arizona 1984]. (1994-12-15)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
successor {daughter}