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# sequence

«sequence» in Mova's school dictionary: **A set of things that come one after another in a certain…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sequence, sequences); verb (sequence, sequences, sequenced, sequencing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A set of things that come one after another in a certain order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#m1)

2) (maths) A list of numbers or shapes that follow a rule (2, 4, 6, 8 …). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#m2)

3) The order in which things happen (put the pictures in sequence). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#m3)

4) A part of a film or a story showing connected events. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#m4)

5) (verb) To put things in order; (science) to find the order of parts in DNA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

Very common in maths: number sequences, finding the rule, the next term, the nth term. In English, sequencing events in a story; in computing, a sequence of instructions. Phrases: «in sequence», «out of sequence», «a sequence of», «the next number in the sequence».

### examples

- What is the next number in the sequence 3, 6, 9, 12? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#x1)
- Put the story pictures in the right sequence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#x2)
- The sequence goes up by 5 each time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#x3)
- A computer follows a sequence of instructions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#x4)
- The film has an exciting chase sequence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#x5)
- The pages are out of sequence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#x6)
- Scientists sequenced the virus's genes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#x7)
- But I have in one case altered the sequence of events putting the fight with the giant last." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/#x8)

### note

Countable. Each number in a sequence is a «term». In maths: find the rule by looking at the difference between terms (5, 8, 11: add 3 each time; the next term is 14). A sequence has an order; a set does not.

### In the corpora

- [Stars spend about 90% of their lives steadily fusing hydrogen into helium, a stage astronomers call the main sequence.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sequence» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequence/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.