Steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.
One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position
The predecessor of an object or machine is the object or machine that came before it in a sequence or process of development. The car is some 40mm shorter than its predecessor. = forerunner
A routing operation or project task that must be partially or completely finished before a later task can begin
A task that logically takes place before another task The predecessor task may have to be 100% complete before the next task starts, or may need to be a certain user-defined percentage complete before the next task starts, or may start concurrently with the next task
One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc
Your predecessor is the person who had your job before you. He maintained that he learned everything he knew from his predecessor Kenneth Sisam
for two activities joined at a node, the predecessor is the one that precedes, and the successor is the one that follows
A transaction that causes another transaction to occur is the predecessor of the resulting transaction The following figure shows three transactions on three separate fibers and their predecessor/successor relationships Related transactions can be on the same fiber or different fibers See successor