successively
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4.4
- adverb
- /səkˈsɛsɪvli/
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sucesivamente
- The teacher presented the lessons successively, each building on the knowledge from the previous one.
- successively higher
- successively higher levels
- successively smaller
And as I hope you've seen, that simulations are used because we can play what if games by successively refining it.
- And as I hope you've seen, that simulations are used because we can play what if games by successively refining it.
Examples
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African and other non-aligned members, alienated by UN actions, successively withdrew their support and troops from the ONUC.
Academic text (1992) -
During the experiment, the samples were tested successively, ensuring each result was recorded before moving on.
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All you need to do is think about successively reducing the pieces.
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The album was begun with the images of the earliest generation, followed successively by later generations in order.
Academic text (2000) -
For the visual game, three gratings were presented successively in the center of the screen.
Academic text (2012) -
The idea is that you successively integrate over slower and slower time scales.
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Each batch of sludge travels through three cells with successively higher internal temperatures.
Academic text (1998) -
Again, three or four color separations are successively imaged onto the paper.
Academic text (1992) -
The poetic voice speaks successively from the subject positions of soldier, poet, and lover.
Academic text (1998) -
Managers know employees are happier when they're taking on successively more responsibility, so they're quick to assign those roles.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
245
3.3
Happening one after another or as a result of what happened before
23
2.8
Done in separate parts, each finished before the next
17
2.3
Things follow each other without a break
17
2.0
With no pause between actions or events
9
4.1
Happening one after another without a break
9
4.4
In the order that events happen
9
4.5
Things happen one after the other in a fixed order
2
6.0
Happens in small steps rather than all at once
How Consecutive
Surface Forms
Morphology
successively = successive (semi-transparent) = success + ive + ly
Standard formation of an adverb by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'successive', yielding 'in a successive manner'.
Etymology
Successively comes from the same root as succeed, which means 'to come after'. So successively means happening one after another in order.