Cotemporary vs Predecessor - What's the difference?
cotemporary | predecessor |
One who lives at the same time with another.
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 model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
(mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
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As nouns the difference between cotemporary and predecessor
is that cotemporary is one who lives at the same time with another while predecessor is 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.As an adjective cotemporary
is living or being at the same time.cotemporary
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(cotemporaries)See also
* contemporarypredecessor
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) * (qualifier) * predecessour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.