A preferred path is defined by starting at the root and following the preferred children until reaching a leaf node.

Our cut operation will break a preferred path into two parts at a given node, a top part and a bottom part.

Senior administration officials, while emphasizing that their preferred path is diplomatic, have not ruled out military attacks if negotiations should fail.

The Academy did not, however, achieve the objective of becoming the preferred path to becoming a naval officers.

Such leakage seemed to establish a preferred path, a canalization, whereby the condition of the victim became steadily worse.

But that is not to say that the preferred path is necessarily the straight line of ideological purity.

"OS/2 will be the preferred path for a large class of customers."

We then disconnect the right subtree of v, which is every node that came below it on the previous preferred path.

We now walk up the represented tree to the root R, breaking and resetting the preferred path where necessary.

He did not fall into religious extremism by choice; his preferred path, of becoming an engineer, was closed off by poverty.