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Definition of Sequence
Sequence

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.

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.

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.

A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.

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.

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.

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.

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Sequence Quotations

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
Dan Rather

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.
Kevin Costner

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.
Niklaus Wirth

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
Quentin Tarantino

The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.
John Sayles

Sequence Translations

sequence in German is Folge {f}, Reihenfolge {f}, Ablauf {m}
sequence in Italian is successione
sequence in Swedish is sekvens


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