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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Successive \Suc*ces"sive\, adjective [Cf. F. successif. See {Succeed}.]
1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
Send the successive ills through ages down. --Prior.
2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Successive induction}. (Math.) See {Induction}, 5.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
successive
adjective: in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn: {consecutive}, {sequent}, {sequential}, {serial}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "successive": after, alternating, appendant, attendant, cadet, catenary, consecutive, consequent, continual, continuous, ensuing, following, junior, later, lineal, linear, next, ordinal, posterior, postpositional, postpositive, progressive, proximate, puisne, rotating, sequacious, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate, subsequent, succeeding, successional, suffixed, unbroken, uninterrupted, younger
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