Noun

(en-noun)

A daughter or son; an offspring.

(figuratively) An offspring; one born in, or considered a product of the culture of, a place.

* 1984 , Mary Jane Matz, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn: A Biography , page 5:

For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty. He was heir to the ancient wisdom of Israel, a child of Germany, a subject of Great Britain, later an American citizen, but in truth a citizen of the world.

(figuratively) A member of a tribe, a people or a race of beings; one born into or considered a product of a people.

* 2009 , Edward John Moreton Dunsany, Tales of Wonder , page 64:

Plash-Goo was of the children of the giants, whose sire was Uph. And the lineage of Uph had dwindled in bulk for the last five hundred years, till the giants were now no more than fifteen foot high; but Uph ate elephants

(figuratively) A thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something.

* 1991 , (w, Midnight's Children) , (Salman Rushdie) (title)

A person who is below the age of adulthood; a minor (person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability).

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child' s life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}

(computing) A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.

* 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed

The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

(obsolete) A female infant; a girl.

* Shakespeare

A boy or a child , I wonder?

Noun

(head)

* 1970 , Freda Utley, Odyssey of a Liberal: Memoirs , page 103:

I remember one amusing episode: in a conversation with an engineer when responding to the usual Japanese enquiry in making social talk, "How many childs have you?"

* 1979 , Spit in the Ocean , Volume 1, Issues 5-6, page 106:

"It is as they say;" he clucks; "these childs are smoke the evil dope and the old ways of behave are forget.

* 2003 , Richard Matheson, Duel: Terror Stories by Richard Matheson , page 172:

I can have many childs . Ten at a time at once.

* 2005 , Stephan Olariu, ?Albert Y. Zomaya, Handbook of Bioinspired Algorithms and Applications , page 6-402:

Thus, the initial random vectors are all normalized and the childs are also normalized to unit vectors after any crossover or mutation operation.

* 2006 , Holman Day, The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot , page 192:

It is poison that has kill our little Rosemarie – and all her life ahead! The doctor say so – and he say I cannot understand about the rich man, why he do it. But I understand that the childs are dying.

* 2010 , Jack Dazey, Dying For Her Love , page 114:

We are not confused children and if we were then let these childs be free, for life is short and every bit of a smile extends life one more day.