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Definitions for: Consecutive [adv] in a consecutive manner; "we numbered the papers consecutively"
[adj] one after the other; "back-to-back home runs"
[adj] successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days"
[adj] in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts"
Webster (1913) Definition: Con*sec"u*tive, a. [Cf. F. cons['e]cutif. See
Consequent.]
1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular
order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession;
with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.
2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or
logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.
The actions of a man consecutive to volition.
--Locke.
3. (Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain
parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony;
as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are
forbidden.
Consecutive chords (Mus.), chords of the same kind
succeeding one another without interruption.
Synonyms: back-to-back, continuous, ordered, sequent, sequential, sequentially, serial, straight, succeeding(a), successive, uninterrupted
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