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downtree

/ˈdaʊn.tɹiː/

downtree adjective: lower in a tree data structure.

Adjective

downtree (not comparable)

  1. Lower in a tree data structure.
    Antonyms:
    uptree

Noun

downtree (plural downtrees)

  1. A subtree of a tree data structure that is immediately below (closer to the tree root) the current node.
    • […] this data structure differs from the tree […] illustrated in Fig. 1, only by having downpointers replaced by downtrees.1985, Society for Industrial, Applied Mathematics, SIAM Journal on Computing, volume 14, page 244
    • […] these ancestors represent down-trees that were removed.2006, Association for Computing Machinery, Twenty-fifth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, page 241

Antonyms of downtree

Forms of downtree

pluraldowntrees

Origin of downtree

From down- + tree.

Questions about downtree

What does downtree mean?
Downtree means lower in a tree data structure.
What part of speech is downtree?
Downtree can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce downtree?
Downtree is pronounced /ˈdaʊn.tɹiː/.

Words near downtree in the dictionary

  1. downtraces
  2. downtrading
  3. downtread
  4. downtreading
  5. downtreads
  6. downtree
  7. downtrees
  8. downtrend
  9. downtrended
  10. downtrending
  11. downtrends

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