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successive

[suhk-ses-iv]

adjective

following in order or in uninterrupted sequence; consecutive: three successive days.

following another in a regular sequence: the second successive day.

characterized by or involving succession.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin successīvus, equivalent to success(us), past participle of succēdere to succeed + -īvus -ive

Related forms

suc·ces·sive·ly, adverb

suc·ces·sive·ness, noun

non·suc·ces·sive, adjective

non·suc·ces·sive·ly, adverb

non·suc·ces·sive·ness, noun

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un·suc·ces·sive, adjective

un·suc·ces·sive·ly, adverb

un·suc·ces·sive·ness, noun

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Example Sentences

Earnings set a new record for the seventh successive year.

Successive reappointments of up to four years each are possible.

In the brief moments between each successive screen image, the backlight is turned off.

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Earnings set a new record for the seventh successive year.

Successive reappointments of up to four years each are possible.

In the brief moments between each successive screen image, the backlight is turned off.

Even after leaving office he continued to act as counselor to successive presidents as well as governments around the globe.

Great minds shape the thinking of successive historical periods.

To get successive harvests, make small sowings at weekly intervals in fall or early.

As each successive console generation provides gamers with options.

J, won their second successive doubles tennis tournament today.

With each successive explanation, everything becomes more rote.

Successive governments have regarded the museum as part of the country's inheritance, and free entry.

Successive cultures are thought to have viewed the art they discovered on the canyon walls with wonder or fear.

As in atoms, the electrons fill the dot by taking up positions in successive orbitals around the center.

For bloom from spring through summer, make successive sowings starting in early spring.

The successive booms made millionaires and losers and overnight towns.

The successive steps of equine local evolution have been, of course, the result of the peculiar requirements of the time.

All successive articles in one book or submit to peer reviewed journals and build from there.

Over the past four years, in successive editions of.

Each successive picture taught me more about what was needed.

Hence the progressive lengthening of the giraffe's neck across successive generations.

The order is important since each successive device need to to detect the connection to the one that precedes it in the chain.

BalletMet's aesthetic lineage under successive directors has not been clearly defined.

They have no idea whether the changes they make in successive editions make the books more effective.

It has an abundance of diamonds and successive governments have husbanded the country's resources.

Successive local administrations have striven for economic alternatives.

These are the dwell time on each individual key and the times between successive key pairs.

They have somehow found a formula for producing scripts with less plot in each successive movie.

Philosophy is nothing but the history of its successive negations.

But convenient court rulings helped bring down two successive pro-Thaksin governments.

Successive images will close in and cover a smaller area each second.

Relative particulate motions occur as relative quantum jumps in position between successive space frames.

Successive rounds of choose, vary, and choose generate images of unbelievable beauty.

The dead hand of successive governments who confuse training with education carry a lot of the blame.

With each successive move, there is a growing sense that it is only a matter of time before they break loose.

Some nesting sites have been in continuous use for hundreds of years, occupied by successive generations of falcons.

To confirm the link, the researchers interrupted many successive superpositions with microwave.

User interface continues to improve with each successive model.

But successive emperors turned the nation inwards on itself, seafaring was banned and the country's great shipyards were closed.

Millions of years ago, the microbes in river bottoms disappeared into the earth, buried by successive layers of sediment.

But mostly they are the result of skills built up over successive generations.

As each successive event occurs, at huge time intervals, the process is repeated.

But successive city governments never mustered the political will to do it-until now.

But then the chipmunk population increased strikingly due to two successive years of abundant acorn crops in the forest.

Folk blame the railway but successive governments have much to answer for:.

They will disagree with themselves on two successive readings of the same angiograms up to one-third of the time.

They kept a veto on big board decisions-which they used to frustrate the efforts of successive bosses.

The ultimate result of this perversity perpetrated by successive governments.

His signature, weaker and more wavering as he signed successive statements, suggests this was the case.

It is a master sensorium or memory bank from which physical forms are synchronously recalled in successive still frames.

So a company shut out of one market could suffer a devastating knock-on effect as successive obligations came due.

Richie adds the water in successive streams spiraling outward from the center of the grounds, an ounce at a time.

Successive scandals, such as the failure to report coolant leaks, have since further undermined confidence in the industry.

We can now accurately model and predict changes in future successive lines based on any starting point in the chain.

On successive nights it arrested two dozen much grander suspects.

Only if the subject resisted four successive commands from the scientist was the experiment stopped.

Previous attempts by foreign retailers to start businesses were blocked by successive governments.

Successive cabinet changes have replaced unpopular ministers.

But the successive marvels of the space age are already tending to yield diminishing moral returns.

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World English Dictionary

successive (səkˈsɛsɪv)

—*adj*
1.	following another without interruption
2.	of or involving succession: a successive process

suc'cessively

—*adv*

suc'cessiveness

—n

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