Look up: successive

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   successive
   the characteristic instants in the successive phases of the setting up of an international telephone call in the manual or semi-automatic service Category: News-systems and communications • a group of statistics related to observations which have an order in space or,more usually,in time.They depend on the difference between successive members of the series,or the differences of those ...
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   Successive
   Suc·ces'sive adjective [ Confer French 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 successiv ...
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   successive
   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 o ...
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   Successive
   • (a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire. • (a.) 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 revolutio...
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