sequence
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Noun (5)sequences
- 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”Type of seriesKinds string, infinite sequence, combination, gene, Fibonacci sequence, codon
- a following of one thing after another in time“the doctor saw a sequence of patients”Synonyms: chronological sequencesuccessionsuccessivenesschronological successionType of temporal arrangement, temporal orderKinds rain, run, rotation, row
- film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movieSynonyms: episodeType of film, photographic filmPart of movie, film
- the action of following in order“he played the trumps in sequence”Synonyms: successionType of order, orderingKinds opening, alternation
- several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keysType of repeat, repetition
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Translations
Noun set of things in a set order
- Spanish
- secuencia
- French
- séquence
- German
- Reihenfolge
- Italian
- sequenza
- Portuguese
- sequência
- Russian
- после́довательность poslédovatelʹnostʹ
- Chinese
- 顺序 shùnxù
- Japanese
- 順序 junjo
- Dutch
- volgorde
- Polish
- sekwencja
15 more languages
- Swedish
- följd
- Greek
- αλληλουχία allilouchía
- Korean
- 순서 sunseo
- Vietnamese
- dãy
- Hungarian
- sorrend
- Portuguese (PT)
- sequência
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 順序 shùnxù
- Catalan
- seqüència
- Czech
- sled
- Finnish
- sekvenssi
- Latvian
- secība
- Norwegian
- rekkefølge
- Romanian
- secvență
- Scottish Gaelic
- leanmhainn
- Serbo-Croatian
- slijed
Noun in mathematics, an ordered list of objects
- Spanish
- sucesión
- French
- suite
- German
- Folge
- Italian
- successione
- Portuguese
- sequência
- Turkish
- dizi
- Russian
- после́довательность poslédovatelʹnostʹ
- Arabic
- مُتَتَالِيَة mutatāliya
- Chinese
- 数列 shùliè
- Japanese
- 数列 sūretsu
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. séquence, L. sequentia, fr. sequens. See Sequent.
1. The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
How art thou a king But by fair sequence and succession?— William Shakespeare
Sequence and series of the seasons of the year.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
2. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment.— Bp. Joseph Hall
3. 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.
4. Music (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.
5. 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. Bp. Fitzpatrick.
Originally the sequence was called a Prose, because its early form was rhythmical prose.— Orby Shipley
6. Card games (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.
7. the specific order of any linear arrangement of items; as, the sequence of amino acid residues in a protein; the sequence of instructions in a computer program; the sequence of acts in a variety show.
Biochem. to determine the sequence of; as, to sequence a protein or a DNA fragment.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
A collection of related things in a specific order. In mathematics, numbers are represented as sequences of digits e.g. bits, decimal digits, hexadecimal digits, etc. There are also sequences of numbers where each number is related to previous numbers, e.g. the Fibonacci sequence. In computing the sequence of instructions that a computer follows when executing a program is called control flow; a sequence of characters is also known as a "(character) string" (e.g. an escape sequence); a sequence of images forms a video; a sound recording is an example of a sequence of samples of an analogue signal. In probability theory, a sequence of events can be described by a Markov chain.
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