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prolongation
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French prolongation, from Late Latin pr?long?ti?, from pr?long?tus, perfect passive participle of Latin pr?long?, from pr? + longus.
Noun
prolongation (countable and uncountable, plural prolongations)
- The act of prolonging.
- That which has been prolonged; an extension.
Synonyms
- (act of prolonging: extending in space): stretching
- (act of prolonging: extending the duration of): continuance, prolongment, prorogation, protraction
- (act of prolonging: putting off to a distant time): deferral, procrastination; see also Thesaurus:deferment
Translations
References
- prolongation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- prolongation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Etymology
From Old French prolongation, borrowed from Late Latin pr?long?ti?, pr?long?ti?nem, from pr?long?tus, perfect passive participle of Latin pr?long?, from pr? + longus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.l??.?a.sj??/
Noun
prolongation f (plural prolongations)
- extension
- (sports) overtime, extra time
Related terms
- prolonger
Further reading
- “prolongation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin pr?long?ti?, pr?long?ti?nem, from pr?long?tus, perfect passive participle of Latin pr?long?, from pr? + longus.
Noun
prolongation f (oblique plural prolongations, nominative singular prolongation, nominative plural prolongations)
- prolongation
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sequence
English
Etymology
From Middle English sequence, borrowed from French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequens (“following”), from sequi (“to follow”); see sequent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si?kw?ns/
Noun
sequence (countable and uncountable, plural sequences)
- A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series
- (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
- Complete the listed tasks in sequence.
- A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
- A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
- (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
- (now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 12-13:
- he found no words to convey the impressions he had received; then he gave way to the anger always the sequence of the antagonism of opinion between them.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 12-13:
- A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
- (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
Usage notes
- (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse sequence with series.
Synonyms
- (a set of things next to each other in a set order): See Thesaurus:sequence
Hypernyms
- (mathematics): function
Hyponyms
- presequence
- (computing): escape sequence
Meronyms
- (mathematics): term
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
sequence (third-person singular simple present sequences, present participle sequencing, simple past and past participle sequenced)
- (transitive) to arrange in an order
- (transitive, biochemistry) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid
- (transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer
Translations
References
Further reading
- sequence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sequence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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