1. series of things: a number of things, actions, or events arranged or happening in a specific order or having a specific connection
2. order of things: the order in which things are arranged, actions are carried out, or events happen a chronological sequence
3. movies section of movie: a section of a movie showing a single incident or set of related actions or events a chase sequence
4. card games cards of consecutive values: three or more consecutive playing cards, usually of the same suit
5. music repeated musical phrase: a musical passage or chant consisting of three or more related short phrases repeated several times at successively higher or lower pitch levels
6. christianity hymn: in the Roman Catholic Church, a hymn sung or said between the gradual and the gospel
7. mathematics ordered set of elements: in mathematics, an ordered set of elements that can be put into a one-to-one correspondence with the set of positive integers
8. biochemistry order determining biological properties: the order of the amino acids in a protein or of the nucleotides in a nucleic acid
transitive verb (past and past participlese·quenced, present participlese·quenc·ing, 3rd person present singularse·quenc·es)
Definition:
1. put or do things in order: to arrange things or perform actions in a definite order
2. biochemistry determine molecule's sequence: to determine the sequence of a protein or nucleic acid
[14th century. < late Latin sequentia "what follows" < Latin sequent-, present participle of sequi "follow"]
Word History
The Latin word sequi "to follow," from which sequence is derived, is also the source of English consecutive, consequence, ensue, obsequious, persecute, prosecute, pursue, second1 in a series, sect, sequel, set2, subsequent, sue, and suit.
