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[si-kwen-shuhl-ak-ses] | 1. | of or pertaining to a storage medium, as magnetic tape, in which records must be accessed by reading or writing from the beginning of the file. |
| 2. | of or pertaining to file processing in which records are organized based on the sequence of keys contained in each record, and in which accessing a record necessitates first accessing all of the preceding records. |