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Ancestor vs Implex - What's the difference?

ancestor | implex |

As nouns the difference between ancestor and implex

is that ancestor is one from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather while implex is a genealogical coefficient of a given genealogical tree; defined as the difference between the number of theoretical ancestors of a person and the number of his/her real ones in a given generation.

As an adjective implex is

intricate, involved, entangled, complicated, complex.

ancestor

English

Alternative forms

* ancestour (obsolete) * auncestor (obsolete) * auncestour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
  • An earlier type; a progenitor
  • (legal) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
  • (figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Saj Chowdhury, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle , passage=The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors .}}

    Usage notes

    * There is a rare feminine form ancestress

    Derived terms

    * cenancestor

    Antonyms

    * descendant

    Anagrams

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    implex

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Intricate, involved, entangled, complicated, complex.
  • * Joseph Addison, essay in The Spectator , 9 February 1711/12:
    • The fable of every poem is, according to Aristotle’s division, either simple or implex'. It is called simple when there is no change of fortune in it; '''implex''', when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. The ' implex fable is thought most perfect: I suppose, because it is more proper to stir up the passion of the reader, and to surprise him with a greater variety of accidents.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A genealogical coefficient of a given genealogical tree; defined as the difference between the number of theoretical ancestors of a person and the number of his/her real ones in a given generation.

    • Synonyms

    * pedigree collapse

    References

    * (adjective) ** Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary . Retrieved 25 February 2010, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Implex ** OED 2nd edition 1989 * (noun) ** Joao Dal Poz Neto & Marcio Ferriera da Silva, "MaqPar: A Homemade Tool for the Study of Kinship Networks" in Hvibrant , v.6, n.2, p.73, footnote 3; Retrieved 25 February 2010, from Google Docs website, original source file: [http://www.vibrant.org.br/downloads/v6n2_dalpozsilva.pdf]