sequencenoun
uk/ˈsiː.kwəns/us/ˈsiː.kwəns/sequence noun (ORDERED SERIES)
C2 [ C or U ] a series of related things or events, or the order in which they follow each other:
The first chapter describes the strange sequence of events that led to his death.
Is there a particular sequence in which you have to perform these tasks?
For the sake of convenience the photographs are shown in chronological sequence (= in the order in which they were taken).
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- a dance sequence
- You had to put the numbers into the right sequence.
- He took me through a sequence of steps.
- It's the third in a sequence of three books.
- The start of the season witnessed an embarrassing sequence of six defeats.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Order and sequence - general words
- alphabetize
- back end
- back end
- be a chapter of accidents idiom
- catalogue
- ladder
- litany
- merry-go-round
- next
- nth
- penultimate
- run
- running
- second 1
- series
- succession
- thirdly
- timeline
- train
- vice versa
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sequence noun (PART OF FILM)
[ C ] a part of a film that shows a particular event or a related series of events:
The movie's opening sequence is of a very unpleasant murder.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Cinema - general words
- 12A
- animation
- animator
- best boy
- Bollywood
- boom
- CGI
- filming
- filmstrip
- footage
- freeze-frame
- gaffer
- pan
- shoot
- slide projector
- slow motion
- soundtrack
- storyboard
- stunt
- the big screen 1
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sequenceverb [ T ]
/ˈsiː.kwəns/to combine things in a particular order, or discover the order in which they are combined:
They discussed how to sequence the steps in the plan.
reading books sequenced in order of difficulty
specialized biology to discover the order in which nucelotides (= chemical substances) are combined within DNA:
Researchers sequenced the full genome of a rat.