Etymology : Middle English, from Medieval Latin sequentia, from Late Latin, sequel, literally, act of following, from Latin sequent-, sequens, present participle of sequi
Pronunciation : sE-kw&n(t)s, -"kwen(t)s
Function : noun
Date : 14th century
1. progression, succession; series of things in succession; order, arrangement; chain of events; series of scenes which make up one episode of a film (Cinema); consequence, outcome; (Genetics) order of monomers within a polymer chain (esp. nucleotides within DNA). sequence\se"quence\ (sē"kwens), n. [f. séquence, l. sequentia, fr. sequens. see:
sequent.].
2. the state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement. how art thou a king but by fair sequence and succession? sequence and series of the seasons of the year.
3. that which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result. the inevitable sequences of sin and punishment. hall.
4. (philos.) simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
5. (mus.) (a) any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps. (b) a melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
6. (r.c.ch.) a hymn introduced in the mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name. fitzpatrick. originally the sequence was called a prose, because its early form was rhythmical prose.
7. (card playing) (a) (whist) three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight. (b) (poker) all five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.sequence n.
8. serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; "the sequence of names was alphabetical".
9. a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" [syn: chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession].
10. film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie [syn: episode].
11. the action of following in order: "he played the trumps in sequence" [syn: succession].
12. several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys arrange in a sequence.
13. The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
14. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
15. Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
16. Any succession of chords rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
17. A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
18. A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
19. Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
20. All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush. film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA" arrange in a sequence determine the order of constituents in; "They sequenced the human genome".
21. 1. A sequence of events or things is a number of events or things that come one after another in a particular order. the sequence of events which led to the murder. a dazzling sequence of novels by John Updike. = series.
22. A particular sequence is a particular order in which things happen or are arranged. the colour sequence yellow, orange, purple, blue, green and white The chronological sequence gives the book an element of structure.
23. A film sequence is a part of a film that shows a single set of actions. The best sequence in the film occurs when Roth stops at a house he used to live in.
24. A gene sequence or a DNA sequence is the order in which the elements making up a particular gene are combined. The project is nothing less than mapping every gene sequence in the human body. the complete DNA sequence of the human genome.