sequence
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
card-games
chemistry
entertainment
games
lifestyle
mathematics
microbiology
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English sequence, from Old French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequēns (“following”), from sequī (“to follow”); see sequent.
Inflected forms:
form: sequences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sequences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sequencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sequenced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sequenced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An alphabet follows a sequence.
The risks involved in changing the DNA sequence is higher.
gloss: The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Complete the listed tasks in sequence.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show, or other video medium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What follows is a bunch of nonstop goofery involving chase sequences, dream sequences, fast-changing costumes and an improbable beard, a little musical help from Flight Of The Conchords, and ultimately a very physical confrontation with a surprisingly spry Victoria.
gloss: A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To arrange (something) in an order.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We sequenced the code to keep it organised.
The later edition of the book sequenced the chapters differently, which caused a lot of confusion among non-technical readers.
gloss: To determine the order of monomers in (a biological polymer), e.g. of amino acids in (a protein), or of bases in (a nucleic acid).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To produce (music) with a sequencer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To proceed through a sequence or series of things.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
uncommon
examples: Children start to make meanings and connections as soon as they encounter the book. This starts with the initial analyses and inferences they make when they see the book cover and continues as they sequence through the interior illustrations.
If indeed smokers sequence through more biologic therapies, these findings may bring about significant practice changes focused on smoking cessation earlier in the CD course.
Synonyms: array
chain
procession
consecution
sequence
series
string
succession
train
Antonyms: hodgepodge
Derived words: almost split sequence
Appell sequence
arithmetic sequence
asequence
base sequence
biosequence
canonical sequence
Cauchy sequence
chronosequence
climosequence
conserved sequence
convergent sequence
cratonic sequence
de Bruijn sequence
deduced amino acid sequence
degree sequence
divisibility sequence
DNA sequence
dream sequence
Ducci sequence
eigensequence
emoji flag sequence
emoji sequence
emoji ZWJ sequence
exact sequence
Farey sequence
Fibonacci sequence
flight sequence
fluorosequence
geometric sequence
Gijswijt's sequence
Goodstein sequence
Gould's sequence
homosequence
ideographic description sequence
in sequence
intersequence
King Wen sequence
Kolakoski sequence
leader sequence
long exact sequence
macrosequence
main-sequence
main sequence
megasequence
metasequence
microsequence
midsequence
missequence
multisequence
nilsequence
nonsequence
oligosequence
opening sequence
Padovan sequence
parasequence
photosequence
Pierre Robin sequence
polysequence
Potter sequence
pre-main-sequence star
prosequence
protosequence
pseudosequence
pyrosequence
random sequence
resequence
retrosequence
rock sequence
sequence assembly
sequence breaking
sequence dance
sequenceless
sequence-of-returns risk
sequence of tenses
sequence point
sequencer
sequential
Sheffer sequence
Shine-Dalgarno sequence
short exact sequence
slippery sequence
stereosequence
Sturm sequence
subsequence
supersequence
Thue-Morse sequence
title sequence
toposequence
triggering sequence
twin oligohydramnios-polyhydramnios sequence
sequenceability
sequenceable
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