offspring vs predecessor

offspring

noun
  • All of a person's descendants, including further generations. 

  • An animal or plant's progeny or young. 

  • Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts. 

  • A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children. 

  • A process launched by another process. 

predecessor

noun
  • A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model. 

  • One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position. 

  • A vertex having a directed path to another vertex 

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