[see-kwuh
ns] 
noun, verb, -quenced, -quenc⋅ing.| 1. | the following of one thing after another; succession. |
| 2. | order of succession: a list of books in alphabetical sequence. |
| 3. | a continuous or connected series: a sonnet sequence. |
| 4. | something that follows; a subsequent event; result; consequence. |
| 5. | Music. a melodic or harmonic pattern repeated three or more times at different pitches with or without modulation. |
| 6. | Liturgy. a hymn sometimes sung after the gradual and before the gospel; prose. |
| 7. | Movies. a series of related scenes or shots, as those taking place in one locale or at one time, that make up one episode of the film narrative. |
| 8. | Cards. a series of three or more cards following one another in order of value, esp. of the same suit. |
| 9. | Genetics. the linear order of monomers in a polymer, as nucleotides in DNA or amino acids in a protein. |
| 10. | Mathematics. a set whose elements have an order similar to that of the positive integers; a map from the positive integers to a given set. |
| 11. | to place in a sequence. |
| 12. | Biochemistry. to determine the order of (chemical units in a polymer chain), esp. nucleotides in DNA or RNA or amino acids in a protein. |
Medical
Word Origin & History
| se·quence (sē'kwəns, -kwěns') n.
[Middle English, a type of hymn, from Old French, from Medieval Latin sequentia, hymn, that which follows (from its following the alleluia), from Late Latin, from Latin sequēns, sequent-, present participle of sequī, to follow; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
sequence se·quence (sē'kwəns, -kwěns')
n.
A following of one thing after another; succession.
An order of succession; an arrangement.
A related or continuous series.
The order of constituents in a polymer, especially the order of nucleotides in a nucleic acid or of the amino acids in a protein.
To organize or arrange in a sequence.
To determine the order of constituents in a polymer, such as a nucleic acid.