successive
Use Successive in a sentence
ɪv adjective
1.
following in order or in uninterrupted sequence; consecutive: three successive days.
2.
following another in a regular sequence: the second successive day.
3.
characterized by or involving succession.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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| —adj | |
| 1. | following another without interruption |
| 2. | of or involving succession: a successive process |
| suc'cessively | |
| —adv | |
| suc'cessiveness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Hence the progressive lengthening of the giraffe's neck across successive generations.
It is a master sensorium or memory bank from which physical forms are synchronously recalled in successive still frames.
Even after leaving office he continued to act as counselor to successive presidents as well as governments around the globe.
Successive rounds of choose, vary, and choose generate images of unbelievable beauty.
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