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Section 27.16 Vocabulary

doubly linked list:
A data structure consisting of a sequence of nodes, where each node contains data and references to both the next and previous nodes in the sequence.
linked list:
A data structure consisting of a sequence of nodes, where each node contains data and the nodes are connected via pointers. May be singly linked or doubly linked.
head:
The first node in a linked list.
list:
An abstract data type that represents a sequence of elements, where each element has a position in the sequence.
list node:
A structure that contains data and the address of (a pointer to) the next node in the list.
singly linked list:
A data structure consisting of a sequence of nodes, where each node contains data and a reference to the next node in the sequence.
tail:
The last node in a linked list.
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