1. A following of one thing after another; succession. 2. An order of succession; an arrangement. 3. A related or continuous series. See synonyms at series. 4.Games Three or more playing cards in consecutive order; a run. 5. A series of related shots that constitute a complete unit of action in a movie. 6.Music A melodic or harmonic pattern successively repeated at different pitches with or without a key change. 7.Roman Catholic Church A hymn sung between the gradual and the Gospel. 8.Mathematics An ordered set of quantities, as x, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4. 9.Biochemistry The order of constituents in a polymer, especially the order of nucleotides in a nucleic acid or of the amino acids in a protein.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: se·quenced, se·quenc·ing, se·quenc·es 1. To organize or arrange in a sequence. 2. To determine the order of constituents in (a polymer, such as a nucleic acid or protein molecule).
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, a type of hymn, from Old French, from Medieval Latin sequentia, hymn, that which follows (from its following the alleluia), from Late Latin, from Latin sequns, sequent-, present participle of sequ, to follow. See sekw-1 in Appendix I.
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, to follow. See sekw-1 in Appendix I.
