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sequence

Set of elements, arranged in order according to some rule. See arithmetic progression, geometric progression, and series.

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An example of a sequence from Handel's Acis and Galatea.

In music, a device allowing key modulation favoured by early keyboard composers in which a phrase is repeated sequentially, each time transposing to a different key.
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Secondly, one thing is said to be 'prior' to another when the sequence of their being cannot be reversed.
The Categories by Aristotle View in context
To ask why such-and-such a kind of sequence occurs is either to ask a meaningless question, or to demand some more general kind of sequence which includes the one in question.
The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand View in context
And to define the matter roughly, we may say that the proper magnitude is comprised within such limits, that the sequence of events, according to the law of probability or necessity, will admit of a change from bad fortune to good, or from good fortune to bad.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
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