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Definition of Consecutive

1. Adverb. In a consecutive manner. "We numbered the papers consecutively"

2. Adjective. One after the other. "Back-to-back home runs"

3. Adjective. In regular succession without gaps. "Serial concerts"

4. Adjective. Successive (without a break). "Sick for five straight days"

Definition of Consecutive

1. a. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.

Definition of Consecutive

1. Adjective. following, in succession, without interruption ¹

2. Adjective. Having some logical sequence ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Consecutive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Consecutive

consecrates consecrating consecration consecrations consecrative consecrator consecrators consecratory consectaneous consectaries

consectary consectator consectators consecution consecutions consecutive (current term) consecutive amputation consecutive aneurysm consecutive angiitis consecutive esotropia

consecutive operation consecutively consecutiveness conseil conseils consense consensed consenses consensing consension

Literary usage of Consecutive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1882)
"But we see here that if the consecutive point be ... Then we have seen (Art. 268) that the equation of a consecutive tangent plane is and a perpendicular to ..."

2. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius (1859)
"Most usually, a narration begins with the Perfect, and is then continued by Imperfects with Vav consecutive. This is the usual way of relating past events. ..."

3. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1895)
"This is the law, so well known to all musicians, forbidding what are called consecutive octaves or fifths—that is, the motion of one part in octaves or ..."

4. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"Curve of the consecutive means of temperature ... But, as on the curves expressing the succession of consecutive means for longer series of observations—for ..."

5. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1879)
"This is the law, so well known to all musicians, forbidding what are called consecutive octaves or fifths—that is, the motion of one part in octaves or ..."

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