Successor may refer to: * An entity that comes after another (see Succession (disambiguation))

Film and TV

* ''The Successor'' (film), a 1996 film including Laura Girling * ''The Successor'' (TV program), a 2007 Israeli television program

Music

* ''Successor'' (EP), an EP by Sonata Arctica * ''Successor'' (album), an album by Dedekind Cut

Mathematics

* A

successor cardinal In set theory, one can define a successor operation on cardinal numbers in a similar way to the successor operation on the ordinal numbers. The cardinal successor coincides with the ordinal successor for finite cardinals, but in the infinite case t ...

* A

successor ordinal In set theory, the successor of an ordinal number ''α'' is the smallest ordinal number greater than ''α''. An ordinal number that is a successor is called a successor ordinal. Properties Every ordinal other than 0 is either a successor ordi ...

* The

successor function In mathematics, the successor function or successor operation sends a natural number to the next one. The successor function is denoted by ''S'', so ''S''(''n'') = ''n'' +1. For example, ''S''(1) = 2 and ''S''(2) = 3. The successor functi ...

, the primitive defined as

S(n) = n + 1

* A successor (graph theory), a node following the current one in a path

Other

* ''The Successor'' (novel), a 2003 novel by Ismail Kadare * The

Diadochi The Diadochi (; singular: Diadochus; from grc-gre, Διάδοχοι, Diádochoi, Successors, ) were the rival generals, families, and friends of Alexander the Great who fought for control over his empire after his death in 323 BC. The Wa ...

, or Successors to Alexander the Great * Successor (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse * ''Successor'', the working name for the class of British ballistic missile submarines, since renamed the ''Dreadnought''-class *

Khalifa Khalifa or Khalifah (Arabic: خليفة) is a name or title which means "successor", "ruler" or "leader". It most commonly refers to the leader of a Caliphate, but is also used as a title among various Islamic religious groups and others. Khalifa ...

, a Muslim who is considered a political-religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad *

Spiritual successor A spiritual successor (sometimes called a spiritual sequel) is a product or fictional work that is similar to, or directly inspired by, another previous work, but (unlike a traditional prequel or sequel) does not explicitly continue the product l ...

, a successor to a work of fiction which does not build upon the storyline established by a previous work

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