3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Consecutive \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. [1913 Webster] 2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding. [1913 Webster] The actions of a man consecutive to volition. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] {Consecutive chords} (Mus.), chords of the same kind succeeding one another without interruption. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: consecutive adj 1: in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn: {sequent}, {sequential}, {serial}, {successive}] 2: successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days" [syn: {straight}] 3: one after the other; "back-to-back home runs" [syn: {back-to-back}] adv : in a consecutive manner; "we numbered the papers consecutively" [syn: {sequentially}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 33 Moby Thesaurus words for "consecutive": after, attendant, cadet, catenary, connected, consistent, continuous, enlarging, ensuing, following, increasing, joined, junior, later, lineal, linear, orderly, ordinal, posterior, progressive, puisne, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate, subsequent, succeeding, successional, successive, tight, trailing, uninterrupted, younger
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