successive

successive
    adj 1: in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts"
           [syn: {consecutive}, {sequent}, {sequential}, {serial},
           {successive}]
    

Successive \Suc*ces"sive\, a. [Cf. F. successif. See {Succeed}.]
   1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming
      after without interruption or interval; following one
      after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the
      successive revolution of years; the successive kings of
      Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
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            Send the successive ills through ages down. --Prior.
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   2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an
      inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a
      successive title; a successive empire. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   {Successive induction}. (Math.) See {Induction}, 5.
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37 Moby Thesaurus words for "successive":
      after, alternating, appendant, attendant, cadet, catenary,
      consecutive, consequent, continual, continuous, ensuing, following,
      junior, later, lineal, linear, next, ordinal, posterior,
      postpositional, postpositive, progressive, proximate, puisne,
      rotating, sequacious, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate,
      subsequent, succeeding, successional, suffixed, unbroken,
      uninterrupted, younger