Data Structures Using Java

C

Glossary

 C.1 The Nature of Jargon

In the next section, the numbers in parentheses indicate the chapter or chapters

in which these terms are used and/or defined. In some instances, the reader is also

directed to the Jargon File found online (search on the term “jargon file”).

The usual notion of a definition is that a definition should read, “An X is a Y

that has properties Z,” where X is the term to be defined, Y is a larger class to

which X belongs, and Z is what distinguishes X from other members in the larger

class Y. For example, in the definition “A tree is a connected graph with no cycles,”

we have X = “tree,” Y = “connected graph,” and Z = “with ...