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**Definition:**A connected, acyclic subgraph containing all the vertices of a graph.

See also minimum spanning tree.

Note: From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, page 1-26, Copyright © 1999 by CRC Press LLC. Appearing in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Copyright © 2000 CRC Press LLC.

Author: CRC-A

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Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, "spanning tree", inDictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed. 18 March 2005. (accessed TODAY) Available from: https://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/spanningtree.html