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postorder

postorder adjective: of a tree traversal, recursively visiting the left and right subtrees before the root.

Adjective

postorder (not comparable)

  1. Of a tree traversal, recursively visiting the left and right subtrees before the root.

Noun

postorder (plural postorders)

  1. A postorder tree traversal.
    • Then a postorder on T is obtained by concatenating postorders of the subtrees of T rooted at ...1995, Mîkā Šārîr, Micha Sharir, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Davenport-Schinzel Sequences and Their Geometric Applications, →ISBN

Forms of postorder

Adjective
alternative formpost-order
Noun
pluralpostorders

Origin of postorder

From post- + order.

Questions about postorder

What does postorder mean?
Postorder means of a tree traversal, recursively visiting the left and right subtrees before the root.
What part of speech is postorder?
Postorder can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near postorder in the dictionary

  1. postorbitals
  2. postorbitofrontal
  3. postorbitofrontals
  4. postorbitosquamosal
  5. postorchiectomy
  6. postorder
  7. postorders
  8. postordination
  9. postorgasmic
  10. postorgasmic illness syndrome
  11. postorgastic

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