Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Following in uninterrupted order; consecutive.
- adjective Of, characterized by, or involving succession.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Following in order or uninterrupted course, either in time or in place, as a series of persons or things; consecutive.
- Inherited by succession; having or giving the right, of succeeding to an inheritance; hereditary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive
- adjective obsolete Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary.
- adjective (Math.) See
Induction , 5.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Coming one after the other in a
series . - adjective Of, or relating to a
succession .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective in regular succession without gaps
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Examples
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If such families had any real existence they could have been formed only by crossing, by the accumulation of successive variations (_variation successive_), and by degeneration from an original type; but if we once admit that there are families of plants and animals, so that the ass may be of the family of the horse, and that the one may only differ from the other through degeneration from a common ancestor, we might be driven to admit that the ape is of the family of man, that he is but a degenerate man, and that he and man have had a common ancestor, even as the ass and horse have had.
Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868
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If such families had any real existence they could have been formed only by crossing, by the accumulation of successive variations (_variation successive_), and by degeneration from an original type; but if we once admit that there are families of plants and animals, so that the ass may be of the family of the horse, and that the one may only differ from the other through degeneration from a common ancestor, we might be driven to admit that the ape is of the family of man, that he is but a degenerate man, and that he and man have had a common ancestor, even as the ass and horse have had.
Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868
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Other researchers discovered a disturbing trend among the over 13,000 visits of outpatients with mental disorder diagnoses: the number of psychotropic medications prescribed increased in successive years.
Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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The first two years of her life were spent in successive phases.
Meredith C. Carroll: Potty Training Our Daughter: Do We Have To? Meredith C. Carroll 2010
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Now, with the holidays over, we have seen two rises in successive weeks, and now Sir Liam says he thinks "this might be the start of the second wave".
How dim is Sir Liam Donaldson ? Norfolk Blogger 2009
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Other researchers discovered a disturbing trend among the over 13,000 visits of outpatients with mental disorder diagnoses: the number of psychotropic medications prescribed increased in successive years.
Dana Ullman: Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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The first two years of her life were spent in successive phases.
Meredith C. Carroll: Potty Training Our Daughter: Do We Have To? Meredith C. Carroll 2010
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The first two years of her life were spent in successive phases.
Meredith C. Carroll: Potty Training Our Daughter: Do We Have To? Meredith C. Carroll 2010
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The Falcons then added safety William Moore, cornerback Chris Owens and end-linebacker Lawrence Sidbury in successive rounds.
Humble Falcons seek team's first back-to-back winning years 2009
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The first two years of her life were spent in successive phases.
Meredith C. Carroll: Potty Training Our Daughter: Do We Have To? Meredith C. Carroll 2010
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