Successive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Successive \Suc*ces"sive\, a. [Cf. F. successif. See {Succeed}.]
     1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming
        after without interruption or interval; following one
        after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the
        successive revolution of years; the successive kings of
        Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.


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              Send the successive ills through ages down. --Prior.
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     2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an
        inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a
        successive title; a successive empire. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     {Successive induction}. (Math.) See {Induction}, 5.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  successive
       adj : in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn:
             {consecutive}, {sequent}, {sequential}, {serial}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "successive":
     after, alternating, appendant, attendant, cadet, catenary,
     consecutive, consequent, continual, continuous, ensuing, following,
     junior, later, lineal, linear, next, ordinal, posterior,
     postpositional, postpositive, progressive, proximate, puisne,
     rotating, sequacious, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate,
     subsequent, succeeding, successional, suffixed, unbroken,
     uninterrupted, younger