Sequential

//səˈkwɛntʃəl// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Succeeding or following in order. not-comparable

    "Hitest keeps the complexity of its pattern generation under control by not allowing extensive time searches in attempts to drive fault data to and through sequential elements. Rather it treats the inputs to sequential elements as pseudoprimary outputs, and treats outputs of sequential elements as pseudoprimary inputs that are fixed for any given simulation time."

  2. 2
    Succeeding or following in order.; Expressing succession of events. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Executed as a sequence of instructions, without concurrency or parallelism. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    in regular succession without gaps wordnet

Synonyms

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orderedappendantcatenaryconnectedconsecutiveconsecutive

Example

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"Will there be a sequential translation into other languages?"

Etymology

From Latin sequentia + -al.

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