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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sequence \Se"quence\ (s[=e]"kwens), n. [F. s['e]quence, L. sequentia, fr. sequens. See {Sequent}.] 1. The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement. [1913 Webster] How art thou a king But by fair sequence and succession? --Shak. [1913 Webster] Sequence and series of the seasons of the year. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result. [1913 Webster] The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 3. (Philos.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences. [1913 Webster] 4. (Mus.) (a) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps. (b) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia. [1913 Webster] 5. (R.C.Ch.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name. --Bp. Fitzpatrick. [1913 Webster] Originally the sequence was called a Prose, because its early form was rhythmical prose. --Shipley. [1913 Webster] 6. (Card Playing) (a) (Whist) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight. (b) (Poker) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a {sequence flush}. [1913 Webster] 7. the specific order of any linear arrangement of items; as, the sequence of amino acid residues in a protein; the sequence of instructions in a computer program; the sequence of acts in a variety show. [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sequence \Se"quence\, v. t. (Biochem.) to determine the sequence of; as, to sequence a protein or a DNA fragment. [PJC] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: sequence n 1: serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA" 2: a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" [syn: {sequence}, {chronological sequence}, {succession}, {successiveness}, {chronological succession}] 3: film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie [syn: {sequence}, {episode}] 4: the action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence" [syn: {succession}, {sequence}] 5: several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys v 1: arrange in a sequence 2: determine the order of constituents in; "They sequenced the human genome"