sequence
- 1) noun, an arrangement of two or more things in a successive order
- 2) noun, the successive order of two or more things
- 3) noun, a sequentially ordered set of related things or ideas
- 4) noun, an action or event that follows another or others
- 5) noun, a) cards a set of three or more consecutive cards, usually of the same suit b) bridge a set of two or more consecutive cards
- 6) noun, music an arrangement of notes or chords repeated several times at different pitches
- 7) noun, maths a) an ordered set of numbers or other mathematical entities in one-to-one correspondence with the integers 1 to n b) an ordered infinite set of mathematical entities in one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers
- 8) noun, a section of a film constituting a single continuous uninterrupted episode
- 9) noun, biochem the unique order of amino acids in the polypeptide chain of a protein or of nucleotides in the polynucleotide chain of DNA or RNA
- 10) noun, RC Church. another word for prose
- 11) verb, to arrange in a sequence
- 12) verb, biochem to determine the order of the units comprising (a protein, nucleic acid, genome, etc)
Etymology
C14: from Medieval Latin sequentia that which follows, from Latin sequī to follow
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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succession, course, series, order, chain, cycle, arrangement, procession, progression, order, structure, arrangement, order, placement, progression