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Sequence   /sˈikwəns/   Listen
Sequence

noun
1.
Serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern.  "He invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"
2.
A following of one thing after another in time.  Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, succession, successiveness.
3.
Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie.  Synonym: episode.
4.
The action of following in order.  Synonym: succession.
5.
Several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys.
verb
1.
Arrange in a sequence.
2.
Determine the order of constituents in.



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"Sequence" Quotes from Famous Books



... she gazed from Edward Mauville, who thus unexpectedly accosted her, to the prostrate form, lying motionless on the road. The rude awakening from her day-dream in the hush of that peaceful place, and the surprising sequence had dazed her senses, and, for the moment, it seemed something tragic must ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... and, to her dismay, found him fever-stricken, and pouring out words with little sequence. She came close to him and tried to soothe him, but he answered her quite at random, and went on flinging out the strangest things in stranger order. She trembled and waited for a lull, hoping then to soothe him with soft words ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... necessary I should further continue special applications; when its modus operandi is understood, its adaptation to many contingencies will of a sequence follow. ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various
... past and future revolving round him, he fell asleep and dreamed he saw Rosabella alone on a plank, sinking in a tempestuous sea. Free as he thought himself from superstition, the dream made an uncomfortable impression on him, though he admitted that it was the natural sequence of ...
— A Romance of the Republic • Lydia Maria Francis Child
... half the diameter of the zodiacal circle as drawn, and Kepler at once saw a similarity to the orbits of Saturn and Jupiter, the radius of the inscribed circle of an equilateral triangle being half that of the circumscribed circle. His natural sequence of ideas impelled him to try a square, in the hope that the circumscribed and inscribed circles might give him a similar "analogy" for the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. He next tried a pentagon and so on, but he soon noted that he would never reach the sun that way, nor would ...
— Kepler • Walter W. Bryant


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