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2 definitions found 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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