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Sequence
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
(4):
(n.) 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.
(5):
(n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
(6):
(n.) 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.
(7):
(n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
(8):
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sequence'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/sequence.html. 1828.
