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plural predecessors
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. quotations examples
I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850
A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model. quotations examples
No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.
1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350
(mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex examples