succession
- 1) noun, the act or an instance of one person or thing following another
- 2) noun, a number of people or things following one another in order
- 3) noun, the act, process, or right by which one person succeeds to the office, etc, of another
- 4) noun, the order that determines how one person or thing follows another
- 5) noun, a line of descent to a title, etc
- 6) noun, ecology the sum of the changes in the composition of a community that occur during its development towards a stable climax community
- 7) noun, in succession in a manner such that one thing is followed uninterruptedly by another
Etymology
C14: from Latin successio, from succēdere to succeed
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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series, run, sequence, course, order, train, flow, chain, cycle, procession, continuation, progression, assumption, inheritance, elevation, accession, in succession informal running, successive, consecutive