5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sequel \Se"quel\ (s[=e]"kw[e^]l), n. [L. sequela, fr. sequit to follow: cf. F. s['e]quelle a following. See {Sue} to follow.] 1. That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history. [1913 Webster] O, let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin. [1913 Webster] 3. Conclusion; inference. [R.] --Whitgift. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: sequel n 1: something that follows something else [syn: {subsequence}] 2: a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it [syn: {continuation}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 68 Moby Thesaurus words for "sequel": aftereffect, aftermath, alternation, by-product, chain, chasing, close, closing, conclusion, consecution, consequence, consequent, continuation, corollary, derivation, derivative, descendant, development, distillate, dogging, dynasty, effect, end, ending, event, eventuality, eventuation, finish, finishing, follow-up, following, fruit, harvest, heeling, heir, hounding, issue, legacy, line, lineage, logical outcome, offshoot, offspring, order, outcome, outgrowth, posterity, precipitate, product, progression, pursual, pursuance, pursuit, result, resultant, row, sequela, sequence, sequent, series, shadowing, successor, supplement, tailing, termination, trailing, train, upshot From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]: SEQUEL Structured English QUEry Language (IBM, DB, SQL, predecessor) From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: Sequel 1. Precursor to SQL. ["System R: Relational Approach to Database Management", IBM Res Lab, San Jose, reprinted in Readings in Database Systems]. 2. U Leeds. Theorem prover specification language. Pattern matching notation similar to Prolog. Compiled into Lisp. [Proc ICJAI 13]. {(ftp://agora.leeds.ac.uk/scs/logic/)}.
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