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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Consecutive \Con*sec"u*tive\, a. [Cf. F. cons['e]cutif. See
{Consequent}.]
1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular
order successive; uninterrupted in course or succession;
with no interval or break; as fifty consecutive years.
2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or
logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.
The actions of a man consecutive to volition.
--Locke.
3. (Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain
parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony;
as consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are
forbidden.
{Consecutive chords} (Mus.), chords of the same kind
succeeding one another without interruption.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
consecutive
adj 1: in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn:
{sequent}, {sequential}, {serial}, {successive}]
2: successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days"
[syn: {straight}]
3: one after the other "back-to-back home runs" [syn: {back-to-back}]
adv : in a consecutive manner; "we numbered the papers
consecutively" [syn: {sequentially}]
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