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Definition of Successive
1. Adjective. In regular succession without gaps. "Serial concerts"
Similar to: Ordered
Derivative terms: Sequence, Sequence, Serial, Serial, Series, Succeed, Successiveness
Definition of Successive
1. a. 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.
Definition of Successive
1. Adjective. Coming one after the other in a series. ¹
2. Adjective. Of, or relating to a succession. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Successive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Successive
Literary usage of Successive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection, Or, the by Charles Darwin (1883)
"On the slow and successive appearance of new species — On their different rates
of change — Species once lost do not reappear — Groups of species follow the ..."
2. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1904)
"On Finite Systems of Successive Images. 165.] If two conducting planes intersect
at an angle which is a submultiple of two right angles, there will be a ..."
3. Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare (2001)
"They were all three buried on three successive days ; and everybody cried so
much, that, as the chronicler says, ' no one wanted to cry again for a whole ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1851)
"The Theory of Successive Development in the Scale of being both Animal and ...
THE theory of successive geological development, so generally adopted by ..."
5. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green, Thomas Hodge Grose (1882)
"How, then, can a consciousness consisting simply of ' fleeting successive parts'
either be or represent that of which the differentia is that its parts are ..."
6. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1873)
"(26) On Finite Systems of Successive Images. 165.] If two conducting planes
intersect at an angle which is a submultiple of two right angles, there will be ..."
7. A Manual of Elementary Geology: Or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1855)
"But, in pursuing such researches, we soon find ourselves led on to consider the
successive changes which have taken place in the former state of the earth's ..."
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