Noun

(en noun) (Inheritance)

Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:I am my father's heir and only son.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir .}}

One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.

A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:And I his heir in misery alone.

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*:"I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came"

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=12, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= What a waste , passage=India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs .}}

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?