sequential
/sɪˈkwɛnʃ(ə)l
/adjective
1Forming or following in a logical order or sequence: a series of sequential steps...
- Imaging, analyzing, and decisionmaking, which once proceeded in distinct, often lengthy, sequential steps, now occur almost simultaneously.
- This reaction was expected considering that the training dealt with highly technical subject material that required tedious attention to detail and sequential steps.
- The analyses involved three sequential steps.
1.1chiefly Computing Performed or used in sequence: sequential processing of data files...
- This is also true of cache memory, which has been proven to greatly improve performance for sequential data streams.
- A wide variety of structured activities are supported, including sequential and parallel processing and condition looping.
- It might have been desirable to perform sequential multiple regression analyses to evaluate the unique contribution of each type of maltreatment experience to our results on startle.
Derivatives
sequentiality
- His basic error arose from his belief that the truth of narratives was incompatible with the usual way of presenting them: that is, in books which by their very technology insisted on a spurious sequentiality.
- Audiences consequently endure a relentless sequentiality, one slide after another.
- A conditional move instruction tests a register and moves a second register to a third if the condition is met; this function can be substituted for short branches and thus maintain the sequentiality of the instruction stream.
Origin
Early 19th century (as a medical term in the sense 'following as a secondary condition'): from sequence, on the pattern of consequential.