Sequence
['siːkw(ə)ns] or ['sikwəns]
Definition
(noun.) film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie.
(noun.) a following of one thing after another in time; 'the doctor saw a sequence of patients'.
(noun.) several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys.
(noun.) serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; 'the sequence of names was alphabetical'; 'he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA'.
(verb.) arrange in a sequence.
(verb.) determine the order of constituents in; 'They sequenced the human genome'.
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Definition
(n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
(n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
(n.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
(n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
(n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
(n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
(n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
(n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
Editor: Lois
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Succession, series, course, order of succession.
Checker: Zachariah
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Following, order, succession, series, consequence, progression, continuity,posteriority
ANT:Precedence, anteriority, priority, disorder, disconnection, inconsequence,irregularity, solution, intermission
Checker: Millicent
Definition
n. state of being sequent or following: order of succession: a series of things following in a certain order as a set of three or more cards in order of value: that which follows: consequence: (mus.) a regular succession of similar chords: in liturgics a hymn in rhythmical prose sung after the gradual and before the gospel.—adjs. Sē′quent following succeeding; Sēquen′tial.—n. Sēquential′ity.—adv. Sēquen′tially.
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Examples
- These conditions, stated in an orderly sequence, would constitute the method or way or manner of its growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- However, my friend, Dr. Watson, knows nothing of this matter, and I should be none the worse for hearing the sequence of events once more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- As a necessary sequence, I asked him if he would favor us with his company, and he promptly accepted the invitation. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The paper tape passed over a cylinder, and was kept in regular motion so as to receive the perforations in proper sequence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The sequence of things was so ordinary and natural, that, standing there, she could hear the door open, feel the night air, and see the stars outside. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Reproduction of other forms of life goes on in continuous sequence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The alphabet consisted simply of an arrangement of dots and dashes in varying sequence. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Following the binder in easy sequences came the corn binder, push binder, header and harvester thresher. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This way of establishing sequences is too common to be fairly regarded as a peculiar folly in Rosamond. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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