sequence

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A following or coming after; connection of consequent to antecedent in order of time or of thought; succession.
2. n. order of succession or following in time or in logical arrangement; arrangement; order.
3. n. An instance of uniformity in successive following.
4. n. A series of things following in a certain order, as a set of cards (three or more) immediately following one after another in order of value, as king, queen, knave, etc.; specifically, in poker, a “straight.”
5. n. In music, a series of melodic or harmonic phrases or groups repeated three or more times at successive pitches upward or downward, usually without modulation or chromatic deviation from the key. The interval between the repetitions may be uniformly a half-step, a whole step, or even a longer interval, or it may vary diatonically between a step and a half-step. When the repetition is precise, interval for interval, the sequence is called exact, real, or chromatic; when it uses only the tones of the key, it is tonal or diatonic. Compare rosalia. Also called progression and sequentia.
6. n. In liturgics, a hymn in rhythmical prose or in accentual meter sung in the Western Church after the gradual (whence the name) and before the gospel. The sequence is identical with the prose (which see), or the name is given to such a hymn as used in this part of the liturgy. In medieval times a great number of sequences were in use, and a different selection of them in different places. At present in the Roman Catholic Church only four are retained.
7. n. A musical setting of a liturgical prose or sequence.
8. n. In mathematics, an infinite set of numbers or objects arranged so that every one has a definite numbered position.

Wiktionary

1. n. A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series
2. n. A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
3. n. A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
4. n. mathematics An ordered list of objects.
5. n. A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
6. n. A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
7. n. card games A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
8. v. transitive to arrange in an order
9. v. transitive to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid
10. v. transitive to produce (music) with a sequencer

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
2. n. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
3. n. (Philos.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy.
4. 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.
5. n. A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
6. n. (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.
7. n. (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.
8. n. (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.
9. n. the specific order of any linear arrangement of items.
10. v. (Biochem.) to determine the sequence of.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the action of following in order
2. n. serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern
3. n. a following of one thing after another in time
4. n. film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
5. v. determine the order of constituents in
6. v. arrange in a sequence
7. n. several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys