capostipite

20:08 Apr 2, 2015
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Computers: Software
Italian term or phrase: capostipite
Context: manufacturing software manual


AAA: Identifica il campo ZZZ della domanda di livello 0 (ossia il capostipite) sulla tabella XXX


could it be something like primary, main? Is there a specific English term for it?


Thanks for any help!
Amy Villafranca
Italy
Local time: 11:25


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Explanation:
I don't think that this term isn't suitable for this field.

DrTarek Youssef
Egypt
Local time: 11:25
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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Explanation:
In object oriented programming you talk about inheritance and parent classes. Most software is probably written in OO languages today. Unfortunately you have given us little to go on. It looks like a database design. "ancestor" isn't used in programming as far as I know.

https://www.google.it/search?num=30&safe=off&hl=it&q="parent...
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James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
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