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postorder

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pos-torder
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a tree traversal, recursively visiting the left and right subtrees before the root.

noun

A postorder tree traversal.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der. Proto-Italic *ordōder. Latin ōrdinem Old French ordneder. Middle English ordre English order English postorder From post- + order.

Inflected Forms

post-order (alternative) postorders (plural)

Questions

What does postorder mean?
Of a tree traversal, recursively visiting the left and right subtrees before the root.
Where does postorder come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der. Proto-Italic *ordōder. Latin ōrdinem Old French ordneder. Middle English ordre English order English postorder From post- + order.

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