4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Sequence \Se"quence\ (s[=e]"kwens), noun [F. s['e]quence, L. sequentia, fr. sequens. See {Sequent}.] 1. The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement. How art thou a king But by fair sequence and succession? --Shak. Sequence and series of the seasons of the year. --Bacon. 2. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result. The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment. --Bp. Hall. 3. (Philos.) 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. (Mus.) (a) 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. (b) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia. 5. (R.C.Ch.) 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. --Bp. Fitzpatrick. Originally the sequence was called a Prose, because its early form was rhythmical prose. --Shipley. 6. (Card Playing) (a) (Whist) 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. (b) (Poker) 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}. 7. the specific order of any linear arrangement of items; as, the sequence of amino acid residues in a protein; the sequence of instructions in a computer program; the sequence of acts in a variety show. [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Sequence \Se"quence\, verb (used with an object) (Biochem.) to determine the sequence of; as, to sequence a protein or a DNA fragment. [PJC] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: sequence noun 1: 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" 2: a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" [syn: {chronological sequence}, {succession}, {successiveness}, {chronological succession}] 3: film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie [syn: {episode}] 4: the action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence" [syn: {succession}] 5: several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys verb 1: arrange in a sequence 2: determine the order of constituents in; "They sequenced the human genome" From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 134 Moby Thesaurus words for "sequence": Indian file, aftereffect, afterlife, aftermath, alternation, arrangement, array, articulation, bank, buzz, by-product, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chasing, classification, concatenation, connectedness, connection, consecution, consecutiveness, consequence, consequent, consistency, continuity, continuum, corollary, course, cycle, degree, derivation, derivative, descent, development, disposal, disposition, distillate, distribution, dogging, drone, effect, endless belt, endless round, event, eventuality, eventuation, file, filiation, following, fruit, future time, gamut, gradation, grouping, hangover, harvest, heeling, hierarchy, hounding, hum, issue, lateness, legacy, line, lineage, logical outcome, monotone, next life, nexus, offshoot, offspring, order, ordering, orderliness, organization, outcome, outgrowth, pendulum, periodicity, place, placement, plenum, postdate, postdating, posteriority, powder train, precipitate, procession, product, progression, provenience, pursual, pursuance, pursuit, queue, range, rank, recurrence, remainder, result, resultant, reticulation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, sequel, sequela, sequent, serial order, series, set, shadowing, single file, spectrum, string, subordination, subsequence, succession, supervenience, supervention, swath, system, tailing, thread, tier, trailing, train, upshot, windrow

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