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What is a predecessor?

What is a predecessor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
  2. A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
  3. (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
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For the most part, the album, like its predecessor, gives a warm glow, akin to talking rubbish over a couple of cans with your mates.
Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
That definition appears to be borrowed wholesale from de Boinod's predecessor, Howard Rheingold.
This iteration builds on what was achieved in its predecessor, without making wholesale changes that could alienate fans of the original.
The Bohemian works were written for the keyed trumpet's predecessor, the valve trumpet.
He is Adam reborn, both in spirit and in flesh, his athletic torso vivifying that of his disgraced predecessor shown in fresco six.

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