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UK
/sˈiːkwəns/
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[ US /ˈsikwəns/ ]
[ US /ˈsikwəns/ ]
NOUN
- film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
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a following of one thing after another in time
the doctor saw a sequence of patients -
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 -
the action of following in order
he played the trumps in sequence - several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
VERB
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determine the order of constituents in
They sequenced the human genome - arrange in a sequence
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
- Retrieval before additions All records will be in their correct places and the file will be physically as well as logically in sequence.
- Beyond affecting the humans and wildlife that call the area home, the Arctic's warmer temperatures and decreases in permafrost, snow cover, glaciers and sea ice also have wide-ranging consequences for the physical and biological systems in other parts of the world. Arctic is warming, NOAA report says
- Through a series of strategic puns Sukenick associates the collection of evidence, analysis and causal sequence with political totalitarianism.
- In the development of better asymmetric hydrogenation catalysts it is important to increase the energy difference between the transition complexes in order to obtain, as a consequence, larger enantiomeric excess. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public
