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1. a father or mother 2. Rare an ancestor 3. a. an organism or organization that has produced one or more organisms or organizations similar to itself b. (as modifier): a parent organism 4. Physics Chem a. a precursor, such as a nucleus or compound, of a derived entity b. (as modifier): a parent nucleus parent [′per·ənt] (computer science) An element that precedes a given element in a data structure. (nuclear physics) A radionuclide that upon disintegration yields a specified nuclide, the daughter, either directly, or indirectly as a later member of a radioactive series. (quantum mechanics) If ann-electron state is written as a sum of products of 1-electron states and (n- 1)-electron states, the (n- 1)-electron states are called the parents of then-electron states.
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