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Dictionary entry overview: What does sequential mean?
• SEQUENTIAL (adjective)
The adjective SEQUENTIAL has 1 sense:
1. in regular succession without gaps
Familiarity information: SEQUENTIAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In regular succession without gaps
Synonyms:
consecutive; sequent; sequential; serial; successive
Context example:
serial concerts
Similar:
ordered (having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule)
Derivation:
sequence (the action of following in order)
sequence (a following of one thing after another in time)
Context examples
Any of the sequential processes by which coagulation factors interact to form a fibrin clot.
(Coagulation Process, NCI Thesaurus)
Scan having a number of sequential frames.
(Dynamic Scan, NCI Thesaurus)
Ubiquitination requires sequential action of an activating enzyme (E1), a conjugating enzyme (E2), and a ligase (E3).
(E3 Ubiquitin Ligase, NCI Thesaurus)
A sequential regimen consisting of carboplatin and paclitaxel, followed by trastuzumab, used in the adjuvant setting for the treatment of HER-2/neu-positive breast cancer.
(PCH Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)
It might refer to a temporal or sequential relationship, or indicate the possibility of performing a particular type of activity as a substitute for another one.
(Clinical Study Activity Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)
Antigens expressed primarily on the membranes of living cells during sequential stages of maturation and differentiation.
(Differentiation Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)
Also called AC-T-T regimen, AC-TH regimen, and sequential AC/Taxol-Trastuzumab regimen.
(AC-T-T, NCI Dictionary)
Also called AC-T-T, AC-TH regimen, and sequential AC/Taxol-Trastuzumab regimen.
(AC-T-T regimen, NCI Dictionary)
An induction regimen consisting of dexamethasone, cytarabine, thioguanine, etoposide and idarubicin administered on an intensively-timed schedule as a form of timed-sequential therapy and used for the treatment of childhood acute myeloid leukemia.
(IDA-DCTER Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)
An integer specifying the relative sequential or temporal ordering of this epoch among other similar epochs in a study.
(Epoch Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus)
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