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internal node

(definition)

Definition: A node of a tree that has one or more child nodes, equivalently, one that is not a leaf.

Also known as nonterminal node.

See also parent, root.

Note: See [CLR90, page 93] or [HS83, page 220].

Authors: LJW,PEB

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Lawrence J. Wobker and Paul E. Black, "internal node", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: https://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/internalnode.html