immediate successor

collocation in English

meaningsofimmediateandsuccessor

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immediate
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/us
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/
happening or done without delay or very soon after ...
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successor
noun[C]
uk
/səkˈses.ər/us
/səkˈses.ɚ/
someone or something that comes after another person ...
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Furthermore, since self-concatenation is value increasing, each element in the sequence is better than itsimmediatesuccessor.
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We also know31 that there exists at least one experience in the sequence that is weakly superior in worseness to itsimmediatesuccessor.
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Finally, notice that a small exception must be made when joining theimmediatesuccessorof the starting node to the current path.
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Compared to itsimmediatesuccessor, the 1841 census affords a more limited insight into occupational structure.
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In other words, in a sequence in which no element is even weakly superior to itsimmediatesuccessor, the first element cannot be superior to the last element.
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Superiority relative to a fixed reference point may well obtain between the extrema in a sequence of attributes, without obtaining between any element in the sequence and itsimmediatesuccessor.
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I was for a very brief time hisimmediatesuccessor.
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This is new in the sense that there is noimmediatesuccessorbody.
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English bingo is theimmediatesuccessorto housey-housey.
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The sponsorship of the arena expired after ten years in 2010 and was without animmediatesuccessor.
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However, in the infinite case we can not rely upon animmediatesuccessorrelation, because points may not have successors.
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It is a type of phrase structure grammar, as opposed to a dependency grammar, and it is theimmediatesuccessorto generalized phrase structure grammar.
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This works well for the natural numbers, but it fails for the reals, where there is noimmediatesuccessorabove 0.
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It is theimmediatesuccessorof a wooden church building erected in 1823 - 1824.
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Where there was animmediatesuccessorstate, membership would normally devolve on that state.
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The immediate successors of a node are the possible outcomes of the corresponding strategy.
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I hope it is so, but he cannot bind posterity or even his immediate successors by his undertakings.
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They, and their immediate successors were denied the right to a presidential pension after the conclusion of their terms.
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In contrast to several of his immediate successors, he denied the right of a state to secede from the union, or to nullify federal law.
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His three immediate successors were assassinated as well.
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