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ancestor

Created by David Markwell on 2018-Sep-04

This is an abbreviation for supertype ancestor.

supertype ancestor

A concept that is a supertype of a specified concept.

Notes

A supertype ancestor Includes the supertype parents and the supertype parents of each supertype parent, until the root concept is reached.
The term supertype is synonymous with supertype ancestor. However, it is sometime helpful to use the term supertype ancestor to emphasize inclusion of all supertypes not just supertype parents.

Example

The figure below shows an example hierarchy in which concept S has seven supertype ancestors A, B, D, E, I, J and K.

Figure 1: Hierarchy Illustration - Subtype ancestors

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