consecutive

consecutive
    adv 1: in a consecutive manner; "we numbered the papers
           consecutively" [syn: {consecutive}, {sequentially}]
    adj 1: one after the other; "back-to-back home runs" [syn:
           {back-to-back}, {consecutive}]
    2: in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn:
       {consecutive}, {sequent}, {sequential}, {serial},
       {successive}]
    3: successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days"
       [syn: {straight}, {consecutive}]
    

Consecutive \Con*sec"u*tive\, a. [Cf. F. cons['e]cutif. See
   {Consequent}.]
   1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular
      order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession;
      with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.
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   2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or
      logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.
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            The actions of a man consecutive to volition.
                                                  --Locke.
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   3. (Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain
      parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony;
      as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are
      forbidden.
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   {Consecutive chords} (Mus.), chords of the same kind
      succeeding one another without interruption.
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33 Moby Thesaurus words for "consecutive":
      after, attendant, cadet, catenary, connected, consistent,
      continuous, enlarging, ensuing, following, increasing, joined,
      junior, later, lineal, linear, orderly, ordinal, posterior,
      progressive, puisne, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate,
      subsequent, succeeding, successional, successive, tight, trailing,
      uninterrupted, younger