sequentialadj.

1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 82 A brief resumé of these thronging reminiscences must necessarily precede the telling of the story sequential to them.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 209 Mental action, though disorderly and not sequential to the question put.

1906 Hibbert Jrnl. Oct. 219 These two books, while not sequential, are closely related.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 238 Sequential Labour..sequential, or after-pains as they are ordinarily called.

1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 606 Inflammatory œdema is brought under the heading of phlegmonous laryngitis, primary and sequential.

1899 W. M. Davis in Geogr. Jrnl. (Royal Geogr. Soc.) XIV. 487 ‘Initial’ is therefore a term adapted to ideal rather than to actual cases, in treating which the term ‘sequential’ and its derivatives will be found more appropriate.

1900 J. Orr in U.P. Mag. Feb. 62/2 With these divisions of opinion on the nature of the Church are connected many sequential differences.

1953 M. Cohn et al. in Nature 12 Dec. 1096/2 We..propose the following terms and designations... The exposure of an organism to a single inducer which is also a substrate may result in the induction of a sequence of enzymes, since the metabolism of the primary, exogenous inducer gives rise to the formation of a succession of intermediary metabolites each of which in turn serves as an inducer for the enzyme which converts it into the next member of the metabolic chain. This phenomenon is termed ‘sequential induction’ (simultaneous or successive adaptation).

1968 H. Harris Nucleus & Cytoplasm vi. 118 We have glimpses of this kind of organization in the phenomenon of ‘sequential induction’ (induction en chaîne) of enzymes in bacteria.

1971 Bacteriol. Rev. XXXV. 89/2 A sequential induction is characterized by a shift in the chemical nature of the inducer.

1844 ‘A. Wallbridge’ (title) The Sequential system of Musical Notation: a proposed new method of writing Music. Second edition.

1849 (title) The sequential book of church music. No. 1.

1862 S. Lucas Secularia 67 If the history of man has been in the main sequential.

1879 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (ed. 5) i. viii. 346 The complete engrossment of the consciousness by a particular series of Cerebral changes..enables those changes to proceed with more sequential regularity.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Nov. 4/2 There is in this country ‘no sequential teaching’.

1951 Proc. IRE 39 276/2 Sequential control, the manner in which instructions to a digital computer are set up in sequence and are fed consecutively to the computer during the solution of a problem.

1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting iii. 53 A computer..carries out each of these operations in automatic sequence under the control of the computer programme. This particular characteristic is known as ‘sequential processing’.

1965 Information & Control 8 159 (heading) Discrete sequential search.

1969 P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 447 Once written, a sequential file has to be read in the same order (or sometimes in the inverse order) in which it has been written.

1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing x. 133 The magnetic tape can be called a sequential access memory, or serial access memory, because the records must be written and read in sequence.

1973 C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. ii. 44 We refer to the set of input cards as a sequential data set because it is possible to read a card only after the preceding card has been read.

1979 J. E. Rowley Mechanised In-house Information Syst. i. 26 Any search must process the complete tape, from start to end, seeking matches between terms, i.e. a sequential search.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 759/1 Sequential scanning, scanning in which the spot traverses each line in the same direction, returning rapidly from the end of one line to the beginning of the next.

1942 Electronics Apr. 164/1 System 2 employs sequential scanning in order to eliminate interline flicker.

1966 G. H. Hotson Television Receiver Theory i. 5 A sequential raster..would be set up by drawing 625 lines one under the other.

1967 H. A. Cole Basic Television iii. 26 Provided that the rate of sequential scanning is high enough, the eye can be successfully ‘tricked’, by reason of the persistence of its vision, into believing that a very rapidly renewed image on the viewing screen has in fact been there all the time.

1947 Electronics Jan. 72/2 The sequential system is characterized by the fact that the transmitted signal contains information about one primary color only at any instant of time.

1951 Proc. IRE 39 1195/1 In the case of field-sequential or line-sequential presentation, step-wise switching from color to color is desired. In the case of dot-sequential presentation, sine-wave switching by circular deflection with uniform angular velocity is preferred.

1975 D. G. Fink Electronics Engineers' Handbk. xx. 12 The field sequential system employs a monochrome television camera, with a color-scanning disk mounting near the focal plane... The video signal derived from the camera tube thus consists of sequential color fields in the order that the primary light filters appear in front of the camera tube.