CHRONOLOGICAL SUCCESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chronological succession mean? 

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

1. a following of one thing after another in time

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRONOLOGICAL SUCCESSION (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 succession" is a kind of...):

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

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

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)