successive
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4.3
- adjective
- /səkˈsɛsɪv/
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sucesivo
- Each successive wave will be bigger than the one before.
- three successive days
- two successive days
- successive generations
And then you go through these successive gates that kind of close behind you.
- And then you go through these successive gates that kind of close behind you.
- They've been refined through successive Asilomar conferences.
- But we can repeat this and get the same sort of bound repeatedly for successive phases.
- However, it should be evenly distributed across successive cohorts.
- The technical question is how many megabytes should be in each successive block?
- So a pronic number is a number which is obtained as the multiplication of two successive integers.
- And as it got longer in evolution, the marginal cost of each successive increment in the detour was slight.
- And yeah, I think successive governments have really let let themselves down on the race question in different ways.
Examples
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I struggled from day to day under each successive frozen blast from the north.
Fiction book (1996) -
Complete meiosis involves two successive division sequences, which result in four new cells, each of which is haploid.
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So every year from that first conference of parties, there is a successive conference of parties.
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So the primary objective of every leader is to ensure that there is successive generation of leaders.
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Table 1 provides the changes in size limits throughout successive years for the various U.S. states.
Academic text (1999) -
As the years went on I would get the successive updates of the game.
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It will be his second successive win.
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Kensington Market likewise presents the story of successive waves of immigrants over the last century.
Academic text (1999) -
Ethnographic research has often revealed the problematic relationships between successive generations, particularly in farming societies.
Academic text (1990) -
Each successive year, the festival attracts more visitors than the last.
Synonyms
302
3.7
Happening one after another in a series
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4.4
Happening after something else in time
154
4.0
Happening one after another without a break
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4.9
Happening in a set order one part after another
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8.9
Happening one after another in order
How Continuous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Successive comes from the Latin root succedere, which means 'to follow'. It is the same root you see in succeed and successor, so successive describes things that come one after another without a break.