successor

noun

1. a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone

2. a person who inherits some title or office

Synonym: heir

3. a person who follows next in order

e.g. he was President Lincoln's successor

Synonym: replacement

1. 接任者;继承者
Someone's successor is the person who takes their job after they have left.

e.g. He set out several principles that he hopes will guide his successors...
他制订了几条原则，希望可以引导继任者。
e.g. ...several critics hailed him then as the greatest living Scottish poet, the natural successor to his old friend Hugh MacDiarmid.
紧接着，一些评论家称赞他为当今苏格兰最伟大的诗人，是他的老朋友休·麦克迪尔米德理所当然的接班人。

1. 后继站：.后继站(successor) 后继站是用于执行分组转发的邻接路由器,它有到目的地的最小成本路径,该路径保证不是路由选择环路的一部分. 同步(synchronization)在发送方和接收方之间共同信号时钟的建立.