different between sequence vs newline

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)

1. A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series
2. (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.

   Complete the listed tasks in sequence.

3. 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).
4. 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.
5. (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
6. (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.

7. A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
8. (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)

1. (transitive) to arrange in an order
2. (transitive, biochemistry) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid
3. (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.

English

Etymology

new +? line, coined at Bell Laboratories while developing the C programming language and UNIX operating systems.

Noun

newline (plural newlines)

1. (computing) The character or character sequence that indicates the end of a line of text and transition to the next line; or, a control code or escape sequence used in a programming language to denote this character.

   Microsoft Windows uses CRLF for newline.

   • 1959, Association for Computing Machinery, Communications of the ACM (ACM Digital Library) Page 599

     The ugly part is the quote marks on two adjacent lines that mean a newline character.

   • 1987, T. D. Brown, C for Basic Programmers Page 13

     The calculator program starts off by printing the string "0\n", that is, it prints a zero and then moves to a newline.

   • 2002, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days, Page 69

     Unlike in C, you don't have to loop through the output and watch every character to make sure it's a newline; Perl will keep track of that for you.

   • 2002, Allen B. Downey, Jeffrey Elkner and Chris Meyers, How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python

     It contains only a single statement, which outputs a newline character. (That's what happens when you use a print command without any arguments.)

   • 2006, Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions Page 111

     The original Unix regex tools worked on a line-by-line basis, so the thought of matching a newline wasn't an issue until the advent of sed and lex.

Synonyms

• line break
• end-of-line

See also

• control code
• control character
• escape character
• escape sequence