Definition: successor

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

successor
     n 1: a person who follows next in order; "he was President
          Lincoln's successor" [syn: replacement]
     2: a thing or person that immediately replaces something or
        someone
     3: a person who inherits some title or office [syn: heir]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Successor \Suc*ces"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.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

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)
successor

   daughter