se·quence
(sḗkwəns, -kwĕnś)
[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 sequēns, sequent- present participle of sequī, to follow.]
noun
- A following of one thing after another; succession.
- An order of succession; an arrangement.
- A related or continuous series. See synonyms at series
- Games Three or more playing cards in consecutive order; a run.
- A series of related shots that constitute a complete unit of action in a movie.
- Music A melodic or harmonic pattern successively repeated at different pitches with or without a key change.
- Roman Catholic Church A hymn sung between the gradual and the Gospel.
- Mathematics An ordered set of quantities, as x, 2 x 2, 3 x 3, 4 x 4.
- 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: -quenced, -quenc·ing, -quenc·es.
- To organize or arrange in a sequence.
- To determine the order of constituents in (a polymer, such as a nucleic acid or protein molecule).
