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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



... his waste basket. "I filed this just ten minutes ago...." He smoothed out the pages. "'Sequence idea, by Wilbur Murphy. Investigate "Horseman of Space," the man who rides up ...
— Sjambak • John Holbrook Vance
... to each other. Often an indifferent action, little wrongful in itself, is the beginning of an atrocious crime. Each of our new resolutions depends upon those which have preceded it, and is their logical sequence just as the sum-total is the product of the added figures. Woe to him who, being seized with a dizziness at the brink of the abyss, does not fly as fast as possible, without turning his head; for soon, yielding to an irresistible attraction, he approaches, ...
— The Mystery of Orcival • Emile Gaboriau
... in his Principles of Sociology, is 'evidently a remote sequence of that system under which a subordinate ruler had from time to time to show loyalty to a chief ruler by presenting himself to do homage.' The idea is plausible: was it not for this very reason that Cleopatra galleyed down the Cydnus to call on Antony,—a call that would ...
— The Perfect Gentleman • Ralph Bergengren
... and one strikingly illustrated in this exposition. In our own country education is conceived as an integral process steadily developing from the kindergarten to the university. To this conception corresponds the sequence of elementary and high schools united under a common administration and by close scholastic bonds. Hence a measure of violence is done both to elementary and secondary education as here organized by the endeavor to view them separately. ...
— Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission • Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
... his copy, ordinarily fluent enough, would not come. Ideas fluttered away just out of reach. The sequence of a chapter had been in his head. Like the dagger, it had gone. He could not account for that disappearance, nor did he try. It would turn up again. So, ultimately, would the ousted sequence. For the latter's departure he did not try to account either. The effort was needless. He knew. An ...
— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus


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