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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Consecutive \Con*sec"u*tive\, adjective [Cf. F. cons['e]cutif. See {Consequent}.]
1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.
2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.
The actions of a man consecutive to volition. --Locke.
3. (Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden.
{Consecutive chords} (Mus.), chords of the same kind succeeding one another without interruption.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
consecutive
adjective
1: in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn: {sequent}, {sequential}, {serial}, {successive}]
2: successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days" [syn: {straight}]
3: one after the other; "back-to-back home runs" [syn: {back-to-back}]
adverb: in a consecutive manner; "we numbered the papers consecutively" [syn: {sequentially}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "consecutive": after, attendant, cadet, catenary, connected, consistent, continuous, enlarging, ensuing, following, increasing, joined, junior, later, lineal, linear, orderly, ordinal, posterior, progressive, puisne, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate, subsequent, succeeding, successional, successive, tight, trailing, uninterrupted, younger
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