ancestors

Definition of ancestors in English English dictionary: A term used for the parent objects or domains of a managed object; All classes above a class in the inheritance hierarchy; In Old Testament study this refers to the forebears of the nation of Israel; the patriarchs and matriarchs of the Hebrews, usually Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Rachel and Leah, and sometimes the twelve sons of Jacob See Biblical Story; The parent of a sheet or an output record, and all of its ancestors, recursively; Plural of ancestor; {i} person from whom other persons are descended in a direct line; n The parent of a sheet or an output record, and all of its ancestors, recursively; If W is an inferior of A, then A is an ancestor of W; roots; forefathers
Ancestors Night: A modern pagan festival, especially celebrated by followers of Heathenry in late October or early November based on the English folk customs and ancestor worship
Ancestors Night marks the end of summer and the beginning of winter.
Ancestors Nights: plural form of Ancestors Night
ancestor: One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir
ancestor: {n} one from whom we descend
Ancestor: In Enhanced X-Windows, a widget that has inferior widgets In other words, the superior or predecessor of an inferior widget If W is an inferior of A, then A is an ancestor of W
Ancestor: a person from whom you have descended
Ancestor: A class or parent that contributes (via inheritance) to the definition of an object The ancestors of an object are its class and all the superclasses of its class (in class-based hierarchies) or its parent and the ancestors of its parent (in prototype-based hierarchies)
Ancestor: In MGI, this term refers to terms in a hierarchical controlled vocabulary like ones containing Gene Ontology (GO) terms An "ancestor" of a term is a term any number of levels above it in the hierarchy from which it is descended For example, the GO term enzyme [GO: 0003824] is an ancestor to the GO term alcohol dehydrogenase [GO: 0004022] See also: Children, Parent, Sibling
Ancestor: Ancestors of a library unit are itself, its parent, its parent's parent, and so on (Standard is an ancestor of every library unit)
Ancestor: An attribute that names a previous version of a fileset This is used to match filesets on a target system If the match_target option is set to true, SD-UX matches the ancestor fileset name to the new fileset name
Ancestor: In bioinformatics, this term refers to terms in a hierarchical controlled vocabulary like ones containing Gene Ontology (GO) terms An "ancestor" of a term is a term any number of levels above it in the hierarchy from which it is descended For example, the GO term enzyme [GO: 0003824] is an ancestor to the GO term alcohol dehydrogenase [GO: 0004022] See also: children, parent sibling
Ancestor: (Data Warehousing Guide; search in this book)
Ancestor: Your ancestor is someone from whom you descended: a parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, etc
Ancestor: Any organism, population, or species from which some other organism, population, or species is descended by reproduction
Ancestor: a person from whom you descend;grandparents, great-grandparents, 2nd great-grandparents (also called great great- grandparents), 3rd great-grandparents, etc ;direct-line ancestor; forefather; forebear
Ancestor: A member that is directly related to, but higher up the hierarchy than the member under consideration DecisionStream
Ancestor: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Ancestor: (Data Warehousing Guide)
Ancestor: The creature used to initialize the population in an avida run
Ancestor: a person who is descended (grandmother, grand-grand-father, etc )
Ancestor: One of a class's superclasses, one of its superclasses's superclasses, etc Sometimes, for convenience, ancestor includes the class itself, along with its proper ancestors
Ancestor: The parent of a node or one of the parent's ancestors In some cases it is convenient if "ancestor" includes the node itself and the term "ancestor-or-self" is sometimes required see ancestor [in DOM2 spec]
Ancestor: (Data Warehousing Guide) [definition #2] (OLAP Services Developer's Guide to the OLAP DML)
Ancestor: In OOP, each class that you create has an ancestor even if the only ancestor is TObject An ancestor is a class that is lower (closer to TObject) in the hierarchy chain than the current class A objects' ancestor depends on where in the hierarchy chain the class was derived The objects immediate ancestor is the class that the object inherited in it’s declaration See "Implementation of TObject" for more information
Ancestor: The ancestors of a chain letter are its parents, parents of the parents, parents of etc
Ancestor: Person from whom another person is descended, for example, a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent
Ancestor: In RGD, this term refers to terms in a hierarchical controlled vocabulary like ones containing Gene Ontology (GO) terms An "ancestor" of a term is a term any number of levels above it in the hierarchy from which it is descended For example, the GO term enzyme [GO: 0003824] is an ancestor to the GO term alcohol dehydrogenase [GO: 0004022] See also: Children, Parent, Sibling
Ancestor: A person from which you are descended
Ancestor: An ancestor node of any node A is any node above A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root "
ancestor: {i} forefather, progenitor; forerunner; person who is related to a person existing at a later point in time; animal or plant from which other types evolved; (Law) person from whom an estate has descended
ancestor: One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father
ancestor: An earlier type; a progenitor
ancestor: Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended. our daily lives, so different from those of our ancestors He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years. descendant
ancestor: One from whom an estate has descended;-the correlative of heir
ancestor: One from whom a person is descended, whether on the fathers or mothers side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father
ancestor: An ancestor of something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed. The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt descendant
ancestor: An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse
ancestor: One from whom an estate has descended; the correlative of heir
ancestor: ascendant
ancestor: {i} forefather

ancestors

Turkish pronunciation

änsestırz

Pronunciation

/ˈanˌsestərz/ /ˈænˌsɛstɜrz/

Etymology

[ 'an-"ses-t&r also - ] (noun.) 13th century. Middle English ancestre, from Old French, from Latin antecessor predecessor, from antecedere to go before, from ante- + cedere to go; more at CEDE.