Sequential
adjective
Happening or following in a logical order or sequence.
Learning a new language is a sequential process where one step leads to the next.
Often appears as...
- sequential process
- sequential steps
adjective
Relating to or involving the regular and continuous action of a series of things, events, or steps.
Sequential programming is a type of programming paradigm where statements are executed in the order they are written.
Often appears as...
- sequential programming
- sequential execution
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Technical
adjective
Involving or denoting a method of project management in which activities are tackled one after another.
We adopted a sequential approach, ensuring one task was completed before starting another.
Often appears as...
- sequential approach
- sequential project management
adjective
Happening or following in a logical order or sequence.
Learning a new language is a sequential process where one step leads to the next.
Often appears as...
- sequential process
- sequential steps
adjective
Relating to or involving the regular and continuous action of a series of things, events, or steps.
Sequential programming is a type of programming paradigm where statements are executed in the order they are written.
Often appears as...
- sequential programming
- sequential execution
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Involving or denoting a method of project management in which activities are tackled one after another.
We adopted a sequential approach, ensuring one task was completed before starting another.
Often appears as...
- sequential approach
- sequential project management
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Logical Progression
The term refers to events that unfold in a specific, understandable pattern, often used in everyday situations.
His career advanced in a sequential manner, with each promotion following the last.
Pro Tip 2/3Chronological Use
Sequential often implies that something is arranged in the order it happened, like dates on a timeline.
The history book presented the events in a sequential format, year by year.
Pro Tip 3/3Instruction Clarity
Sequential steps are important when instructions need to be followed exactly as outlined.
Cake recipes are sequential; ingredients must be added in the specified order.
Compare with
consecutivecontinuousinterruptorderprogressiveserialsuccessive
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Chris Domas: The 1s and...
and I asked myself, what do I do when I first encounter something like this? And the very first thing I want to do, the very first question I want to answer, is what is this? I don't care what it does, how it works. All I want to know is, what is this? And the way I can figure that out is by looking at chunks, sequential chunks of binary information,
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This deep-sea mystery is...
And so they were finally able to get good pristine deep subsurface samples some really without contamination from surface microbes. This drill ship is capable of drilling thousands of meters underneath the ocean, and the mud comes up in sequential cores, one after the other -- long, long cores that look like this.
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Where do math symbols...
that tells you how many times to repeat the operation. And a long string of sequential terms added together is collapsed into a capital sigma. These symbols shorten lengthy calculations to smaller terms that are much easier to manipulate. Symbols can also provide succinct instructions
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What it takes to crush a...
like hospitals or rural clinics, or hot climate or cold climate; and that we can produce it at the right scale. It's a very long checklist, I know, and in a non-crisis situation, we would likely address these issues one after the other in a sequential way,
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A coral reef love story...
they have multiple wardrobe changes throughout their life. A juvenile outfit, an intermediate getup, and a terminal look. Fourth, with this last wardrobe change comes a sex change from female to male, termed sequential hermaphroditism.
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The physics of playing...
The vibration translates through the neck and bridge to the guitar's body, where the thin and flexible wood vibrates, jostling the surrounding air molecules together and apart. These sequential compressions create sound waves,
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A global pandemic calls...
I do. I'm actually excited to see that we're doing something that we only get to think of in computer science, which is we're changing what should have always been, or has always been, rather, multiple sequential processes.
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Don Levy: A cinematic...
moviemakers had developed an arsenal of techniques to further their deceptions. Motion pictures are themselves an illusion of life, produced by the sequential projection of still frames,
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A cinematic journey...
makers had developed an arsenal of techniques to further their deceptions motion pictures are themselves in the illusion of life produced by the sequential projection of still friends
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Animation basics: The...
Take a series of still, sequential images. Let's look at them one by one. Faster. Now, let's remove the gaps, go faster still.
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Chris Domas: The 1s and...
and I asked myself, what do I do when I first encounter something like this? And the very first thing I want to do, the very first question I want to answer, is what is this? I don't care what it does, how it works. All I want to know is, what is this? And the way I can figure that out is by looking at chunks, sequential chunks of binary information,
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This deep-sea mystery is...
And so they were finally able to get good pristine deep subsurface samples some really without contamination from surface microbes. This drill ship is capable of drilling thousands of meters underneath the ocean, and the mud comes up in sequential cores, one after the other -- long, long cores that look like this.
Video examples
Where do math symbols...
that tells you how many times to repeat the operation. And a long string of sequential terms added together is collapsed into a capital sigma. These symbols shorten lengthy calculations to smaller terms that are much easier to manipulate. Symbols can also provide succinct instructions
Video examples
What it takes to crush a...
like hospitals or rural clinics, or hot climate or cold climate; and that we can produce it at the right scale. It's a very long checklist, I know, and in a non-crisis situation, we would likely address these issues one after the other in a sequential way,
Video examples
A coral reef love story...
they have multiple wardrobe changes throughout their life. A juvenile outfit, an intermediate getup, and a terminal look. Fourth, with this last wardrobe change comes a sex change from female to male, termed sequential hermaphroditism.
Video examples
The physics of playing...
The vibration translates through the neck and bridge to the guitar's body, where the thin and flexible wood vibrates, jostling the surrounding air molecules together and apart. These sequential compressions create sound waves,
Video examples
A global pandemic calls...
I do. I'm actually excited to see that we're doing something that we only get to think of in computer science, which is we're changing what should have always been, or has always been, rather, multiple sequential processes.
Video examples
Don Levy: A cinematic...
moviemakers had developed an arsenal of techniques to further their deceptions. Motion pictures are themselves an illusion of life, produced by the sequential projection of still frames,
Video examples
A cinematic journey...
makers had developed an arsenal of techniques to further their deceptions motion pictures are themselves in the illusion of life produced by the sequential projection of still friends
Video examples
Animation basics: The...
Take a series of still, sequential images. Let's look at them one by one. Faster. Now, let's remove the gaps, go faster still.
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Simon Kuznets
American Economist
The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.
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Lukas Haas
American Actor
One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.
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Tobin Bell
American Actor
One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of the things that fans have liked a lot is, we don't forget about details. They come back and reveal themselves as the story evolves.
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Neal Adams
American Artist
One of the things people think about me is that I don't do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I've ever done, they're all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially.
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Yuri Lowenthal
American Actor
I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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Reggie Fils-Aime
American Businessman
Whether it's with a 'Metroid' experience or a 'Donkey Kong' experience, we're constantly looking to push the envelope on the IP versus doing sequential small iterations with a particular franchise.
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Graham Swift
British Author
In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.
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Eric Maskin
American Economist
Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.
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Gene Luen Yang
Chinese Writer
Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.
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Simon McBurney
English Actor
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.
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Simon Kuznets
American Economist
The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.
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Lukas Haas
American Actor
One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.
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Tobin Bell
American Actor
One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of the things that fans have liked a lot is, we don't forget about details. They come back and reveal themselves as the story evolves.
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Neal Adams
American Artist
One of the things people think about me is that I don't do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I've ever done, they're all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially.
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Yuri Lowenthal
American Actor
I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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Reggie Fils-Aime
American Businessman
Whether it's with a 'Metroid' experience or a 'Donkey Kong' experience, we're constantly looking to push the envelope on the IP versus doing sequential small iterations with a particular franchise.
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Graham Swift
British Author
In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.
Quote examples
Eric Maskin
American Economist
Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.
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Gene Luen Yang
Chinese Writer
Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.
Quote examples
Simon McBurney
English Actor
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.
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