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CHRONOLOGICAL SUCCESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A following of one thing after another in time
Example:
the doctor saw a sequence of patients
Synonyms:
chronological sequence; chronological succession; sequence; succession; successiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("chronological succession" is a kind of...):
temporal arrangement; temporal order (arrangement of events in time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chronological succession"):
pelting; rain (anything happening rapidly or in quick successive)
rotation (a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.))
row (a continuous chronological succession without an interruption)
run (an unbroken chronological sequence)
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