Predecessor may refer to:
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Precursor (religion)
In religion, a precursor, also known as forerunner, predecessor, harbinger or herald, is a holy person who announced the approaching appearance of a central figure of the religion or who identified a central figure of the religion during the latter ...
, a holy person announcing the approaching appearance of a prophet
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Predecessor (graph theory)
This is a glossary of graph theory. Graph theory is the study of graphs, systems of nodes or vertices connected in pairs by lines or edges.
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, a term in graph theory
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Predecessor problem
In computer science, the predecessor problem involves maintaining a set of items to, given an element, efficiently query which element precedes or succeeds that element in an order. Data structures used to solve the problem include balanced bin ...
, a problem in theoretical computer science
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''Predecessor'' (video game), a 2024 video game
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