uptree

1. not comparablecomputingHigher in a tree data structure.

   Antonyms: downtree

plural uptrees

1. computerA subtree of a tree data structure that is rooted at a child of the current node (where the root node is considered to be the bottom of a tree).

   The maximum number of such left or right up-trees that we could scan is O(log N).

   2006, Association for Computing Machinery, Twenty-fifth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, page 241

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   The principal idea of [JAF 82] is that nodes do not start to update their routing table until all nodes in uptrees are notified.

   1986, Wei-Tek Tsai, Control and Management of Large and Dynamic Networks, page 73