sequence Definition

a hymn in irregular meter between the gradual and Gospel in masses for special occasions (such as Easter)

a continuous or connected series: such as

an extended series of poems united by a single theme

to arrange in a sequence

to determine the sequence of chemical constituents (such as amino-acid residues or nucleic-acid bases) in

a sequence of elements in a metric space such that for any positive number no matter how small there exists a term in the sequence for which the distance between any two terms beyond this term is less than the arbitrarily small number

the group of stars that on a graph of spectrum versus luminosity forms a band comprising 90 percent of stellar types and that includes stars representative of the stages a normal star passes through during the majority of its lifetime

a series of sonnets often having a unifying theme

not in order

a sequence (such as 1, 1/2, 1/4) in which the ratio of a term to its predecessor is always the same —called also geometrical progression, geometric sequence