[ UK /sˈiːkwəns/ ]
[ US /ˈsikwəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
  2. a following of one thing after another in time
    the doctor saw a sequence of patients
  3. serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern
    he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA
    the sequence of names was alphabetical
  4. the action of following in order
    he played the trumps in sequence
  5. several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
VERB
  1. determine the order of constituents in
    They sequenced the human genome
  2. arrange in a sequence
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How To Use sequence In A Sentence

  • He described the sequence of events leading up to the robbery.
  • Apart from any other objection, a different classification would be reached if the characters were used in a different sequence.
  • The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
  • A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare.
  • Traditional methods for liquid or semiliquid fecal incontinence management, such as the use of absorbent briefs/pads, skin cleansers, and moisturizers, are only moderately successful in alleviating the consequences of fecal incontinence. New Data Shows Budget Impact of Fecal Management System in Hospital ICU
  • The camera zooms in on a book of sheets that each particpant holds, and each scene repeats a couple of times as a zoetrope would before the page turns and a new sequence begins. Leftfield and Looping « Squares of Wheat
  • National Provisions Company, and went out preaching fiat money and a subtreasury for the farmers 'crops, trusting to God and the flower garden about his little white house, to keep the family alive -- it is odd that Jeanette's childish impression was that General Ward was a man of consequence in the world. A Certain Rich Man
  • Instead, the thin sandy developments defining the sequence boundaries suggest sandy sabkhas and sand sheets supplied by this undersaturated wind system and only preserved as a consequence of renewed lake-level rise.
  • What you do get, however, is a sequence of eleven pieces of music of astonishing variety.
  • One consequence of epidemiological research into the contribution of lifestyle factors to cancer risk has been to blame the individual who develops cancer.
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