What is the meaning of sequence?

Serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern.
- usage: "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"
A following of one thing after another in time.
- usage: "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"
- synonyms: chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession
Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie.
- synonyms: episode
The action of following in order.
- usage: "he played the trumps in sequence"
- synonyms: succession
Several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys.

Arrange in a sequence.
Determine the order of constituents in.
- usage: "They sequenced the human genome"

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