sequence: meaning and definitions

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What is sequence?

What is sequence?

  • A following of one thing after another; succession.
  • An order of succession; an arrangement.
  • A related or continuous series. See Synonyms at series.
  • Games Three or more playing cards in consecutive order; a run.
  • A series of related shots that constitute a complete unit of action in a movie.
  • Music A melodic or harmonic pattern successively repeated at different pitches with or without a key change.
  • Roman Catholic Church A hymn sung between the gradual and the Gospel.
  • Mathematics An ordered set of quantities, as x, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4.
  • Biochemistry The order of constituents in a polymer, especially the order of nucleotides in a nucleic acid or of the amino acids in a protein.
  • To organize or arrange in a sequence.
  • To determine the order of constituents in (a polymer, such as a nucleic acid or protein molecule).

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