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sequence
has definitions from the fields of photography,film,music
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[ noun ] serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern
Examples "the sequence of names was alphabetical" "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA" Used in print (S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)The difference between the sequence of Onset of ossification for the sexes governs the numbering sequence in Figures 3 and 4 . The 34 arrows , denoting onset age plus completion age deviations , have been arrayed in an Onset sequence which begins with girl 18 who had the earliest Onset of the 34 girls . (R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)This prevents the occurrence of an infinite sequence of isolated tangent points . (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)The potters of the Aegean_islands thus stood apart from those of the mainland , and in Greece itself Argive , Corinthian , Attic , Boeotian , and other Geometric sequences have each their own hallmarks . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Some time in 1912 , Picasso cut_out and folded a piece_of_paper in the shape of a guitar ; to this he glued and fitted other pieces_of_paper and four taut strings , thus creating a sequence of flat surfaces in real and sculptural space to which there clung only the vestige of a picture_plane . Related terms series string combination fibonacci_sequence combination codon gene |
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[ noun ] the action of following in order
Synonyms Examples : "he played the trumps in sequence" Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)We leap from event to event - including the formation of the posse - even though the events , in `` reality '' are taking_place not in sequence but simultaneously , and not near each other but at a considerable distance . The cowboy films , the cops and robbers films , and the slapstick comedy films culminating in an insane chase are not_only catering to what critics may assume to be a vulgar taste for violence ; these films and these sequences are also seeking_out - instinctively or by_design - the peculiarly cinematic elements of narrative . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (photography,film) film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
Synonyms Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)The physical film is cut with a knife at the end of one complete sequence , and the cut edge is joined physically , by cement , to the cut edge of the beginning of the next sequence . The physical film is cut with a knife at the end of one complete sequence , and the cut edge is joined physically , by cement , to the cut edge of the beginning of the next sequence . If , in preparing that shot for the inevitable showing to your friends , you interrupt the sequence to paste in a_few frames of the child 's grandmother watching this event , you have begun to be an artist in film ; you are employing the basic technique of film ; you are cutting . |
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[ noun ] a following of one thing after another in time
Examples "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)I am sure that nothing within me is capable of composing that life-like sequence , so complete in_detail , from the hodge-podge of news pictures I have seen . (S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)The difference between the sequence of Onset of ossification for the sexes governs the numbering sequence in Figures 3 and 4 . |
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[ verb ] arrange in a sequence
Used in print (Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)The video signal is amplified and then switched , in synchronism with the three ultraviolet_light sources which are sequenced by the rotating mirror so that during one-twentieth of a second only one wavelength , corresponding to red , green , or blue , is seen . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (music) several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
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