Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Following in order or time; subsequent.
  • adjective Following as a result; consequent.
  • noun A result; a consequence.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Continuing in the same course or order; following; succeeding.
  • Following by natural or logical consequence.
  • noun A follower.
  • noun A sequence or sequel; that which follows as a result.
  • noun That which follows by an observed order of succession: used, in opposition to antecedent, where one wishes to avoid the implication of the relation of effect to cause that would be conveyed by the use of consequent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Following; succeeding; in continuance.
  • adjective Following as an effect; consequent.
  • noun rare A follower.
  • noun That which follows as a result; a sequence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
  • adjective That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent to, on, upon.
  • adjective Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.
  • noun Something that follows in a given sequence.
  • noun logic An element of a sequence, usually a sequence in which every entry is an axiom or can be inferred from previous elements.
  • noun obsolete A follower.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective in regular succession without gaps
  • adjective following or accompanying as a consequence

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin sequēns, sequent-, present participle of sequī, to follow; see sequence.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French sequent, from Latin sequentem, present participle of sequi ("to follow").

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Examples

  • He therefore invented another logical calculus that he called sequent calculus (Sequenzenkalkul, literally “calculus of sequences”) and made it the central topic of his thesis.

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  • The ten thralls answered him with one mouth and in sequent words, saying, Whatso thou biddest us,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • If at any stage of this “reduction process” the conclusion of a sequent is a compound formula, you have to consider any conjunct or any instance of universal quantification as a possible conclusion.

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  • Ketonen wanted to formulate Skolem's formal rules of proof within sequent calculus.

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  • Failure of the aims of Hilbert through Gödel's incompleteness theorems; Gentzen's creation of the two main types of logical systems of contemporary proof theory, natural deduction and sequent calculus

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  • Every body know their truth by sequent 12 on Thursday, Sep 3, 2009 at 2: 00: 12 AM

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  • Inside the magazine, she is shown wearing a range of outfits, including a sequent top and leather pants.

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  • With Kleene's book, Gentzen's sequent calculi became generally known and accessible.

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  • Ketonen's idea was to define a system of proof search: one starts from a given sequent to be derived, chooses a formula in it, and writes the premisses of a rule that can conclude the given sequent.

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  • A cut with such a sequent as one premiss has the other premiss equal to the conclusion and can therefore be deleted.

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  • He learned the wheelwright's trade, and really that seemed all there was to tell. The rest had been calm and sequent progression--steady employment as a journeyman first; then marriage and a house and lot; the modest start as a master; the move to Octavius and cheap lumber; the growth of his business, always marked of late years stupendous--all following naturally, easily, one thing out of another.

    - Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware, ch. 9

    August 1, 2008