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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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paragenesis
English
Etymology
para- +? -genesis
Noun
paragenesis (countable and uncountable, plural parageneses)
- (geology) An ordered chronological sequence of mineral formations.
- (geology) The formation of minerals in contact, so as to affect one another's development.
- (biology) Hybridism.
Related terms
- paragenetic
- paragenic
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