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successive |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Successive \Suc*ces"sive\, a. [Cf. F. successif See {Succeed}.] 1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer. Send the successive ills through ages down --Prior. 2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as a successive title; a successive empire. [Obs.] --Shak. {Successive induction}. (Math.) See {Induction}, 5. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: successive adj : in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn: {consecutive}, {sequent}, {sequential}, {serial}]
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