parentless
English
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Adjective
[edit]parentless (not comparable)
- Having no (living) parent.
- 1973, Michael Gordon, The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective:
- Firstly, then, who were these parentless children who seem to have been present in a sizeable proportion of households...
- 2011, Philip Reeve, Scrivener's Moon, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 158:
- No, if you wanted to free yourself of feelings you didn't want to be an Engineer. Growing up parentless on Ditch Street, though; that would really do the trick.
- (computing) Having no parent in a data structure.
- 2012, Michael Lawrence, John Verzani, Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R, page 19:
- The top-level window is parentless and forms the root of the hierarchy.
- 2004, Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference:
- Two consequences of parentless elements complicate the rules.
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[edit]having no parent
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