SUCCESSIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does successive mean? 

• SUCCESSIVE (adjective)
  The adjective SUCCESSIVE has 1 sense:

1. in regular succession without gaps

  Familiarity information: SUCCESSIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUCCESSIVE (adjective)

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:

succeed (be the successor (of))

successiveness (a following of one thing after another in time)

 Context examples 

A scale that uses ordered numbers where the difference between successive designations may not be constant.

(Ordinal Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

At least 2 successive generations should be affected; 4.

(Amsterdam Criteria II, NCI Thesaurus)

Our little voyages of discovery were often prolonged by the successive objects that presented themselves.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Each successive visit of Saturn will theoretically be easier, for it is assumed you have learned most of what Saturn needed you to learn his first time around.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Many threw themselves down upon the turf and allowed successive waves to pass over their bodies, whilst others, driven wild by the blows, returned them with their hunting-crops and walking-canes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Measuring successive phases of individual cycles in repetitive processes, such as the cardiac cycle, and then determining quantitative markers from this set.

(Phase Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

The minimum duration (time) between successive peaks of R waves in a particular set of RR intervals.

(Minimum RR Duration, NCI Thesaurus)

A string unique to a time duration of 24 hours between 2 successive midnights defined by the local time zone.

(Date Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)

The maximum time between successive cycles of contraction and subsequent relaxation of the heart, usually expressed as beats per minute, obtained from a set of measurements of the heart rate.

(Minimum Heart Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

The minimum time between successive cycles of contraction and subsequent relaxation of the ventricles, usually expressed as beats per minute, obtained from a set of measurements of the ventricular rate.

(Minimum Ventricular Heart Rate, NCI Thesaurus)