sequence

sequence is a 8-letter English word with 15 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 22 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
2. noun. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
3. noun. Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
4. noun. Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
5. noun. A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
6. noun. A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
7. noun. Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
8. noun. All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
9. noun. the action of following in order

   "he played the trumps in sequence"

   Synonyms: succession

10. noun. film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie

    Synonyms: episode

11. noun. a following of one thing after another in time

    "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"

    Synonyms: succession, successiveness

12. noun. several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
13. noun. serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern

    "the sequence of names was alphabetical"

    "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"

14. verb. arrange in a sequence
15. verb. determine the order of constituents in

    "They sequenced the human genome"

Synonyms

succession, episode, successiveness

Common word forms

sequenced, sequencer, sequences, sequencing

Words from these letters

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