sequence
sequence
(sēʹkwəns, -kwĕns) noun
1.
A following of one thing after another; succession.
2.
An order of succession; an arrangement.
3.
A related or continuous series. See synonyms at series.
4.
Games. Three or more playing cards in consecutive order; a run.
5. A series of single film shots so edited as to constitute an aesthetic or dramatic unit; an episode.
6. Music. A melodic or harmonic pattern successively repeated at different pitches with or without a key change.
7. Roman Catholic Church. A hymn sung between the gradual and the Gospel.
8. Mathematics. An ordered set of quantities, as x, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4.
9. Biochemistry. The order of constituents in a polymer, especially the order of nucleotides in a nucleic acid or of the animal acids in a protein.
verb
, transitive
sequenced
, sequencing, sequences
1.
To organize or arrange in a sequence.
2.
To determine the order of constituents in (a polymer, such as a nucleic acid or protein molecule).
[Middle English, a type of hymn, from Old French, from Medieval Latin sequentia, hymn, that which follows, from Late Latin, from Latin sequēns, sequent- present participle of sequī, to follow.]