CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chronological sequence mean? 

• CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE (noun)
  The noun CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE has 1 sense:

1. a following of one thing after another in time

  Familiarity information: CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A following of one thing after another in time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

chronological sequence; chronological succession; sequence; succession; successiveness

Context example:

the doctor saw a sequence of patients

Hypernyms ("chronological sequence" is a kind of...):

temporal arrangement; temporal order (arrangement of events in time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chronological sequence"):

pelting; rain (anything happening rapidly or in quick successive)

rotation (a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.))

row (a continuous chronological succession without an interruption)

run (an unbroken chronological sequence)

 Context examples 

Representation of data as a chronological sequence of events.

(Discrete Modeling, NCI Thesaurus)