Word Finder - consecutive

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A sequence of notes or chords that results from repeated shifts in pitch of the same interval.

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A linguistic form that implies or describes an event that follows temporally from another.

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Consecutive interpretation.

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Following, in succession, without interruption

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Having some logical sequence

After two consecutive months of decline in available work, David became concerned about the security of his job.

This is our twenty-eighth consecutive day of rain! The ground is soggy and roads are flooded everywhere.

Can you do a perfect pushup, but not 50 consecutive ones?

During the revolution of 1848 against the Bourbons of Naples, Messina was bombarded for three consecutive days.

Since 1872 no president had been re-elected for a second consecutive term.

A more efficient arrangement consists of a stack of vertical pipes standing up from a main or collecting trough and connected at the top in consecutive pairs by a cross tube.

That in the three driest consecutive years will be about 80% of the mean for the 50 years.

They comprise a consecutive series of deposits from the bottom of the Lias up to the Oxford Clay.

As a thinker Saint-Simon was entirely deficient in system, clearness and consecutive strength.

The grounds for divorce in the state are adultery, impotence, extreme cruelty, desertion for three consecutive years next preceding the application, gross and confirmed habits of intoxication, cruel and abusive treatment, or a husband's gross or wanton refusal or neglect to provide a suitable maintenance for his wife.

A volume might be written on Orlando di Lasso's art of so crossing the voices as to render possible successions of chords which, on a keyed instrument where such crossing cannot be expressed, would be a horrible series of consecutive fifths; the beauty of the device consisting in the extreme simplicity of the chords, combined with the novelty due to the fact that these chords cannot be produced by any ordinary means without incorrectness.

The special form of curb sender mentioned, termed the " Interpolator," has been devised so as to secure the correct re-transmission of any given number of consecutive elements of a letter which are of the same sign, for when signals are received at the end of a long cable the relay arm will not return to its zero position between consecutive elements of the same sign, but will remain on the respective contact surface during the whole time occupied by such consecutive elements.

His thinking is consecutive, self-restrained, practical, devoid of everything that might be called fantastic or excessive.

The idiom of ordinary life and social intercourse and the more fervid and elevated diction of oratorical prose had made great progress, but the language of imagination and poetical feeling was, if vivid and impressive in isolated expressions, still incapable of being wrought into consecutive passages of artistic composition.

Two consecutive birdies had left him high and dry on 17 under, a stroke clear of 35th place.

Where the pagination is not consecutive through the volume, it is essential to give the month or part number.

Report to Environment Agency, Worthing Boro Council and Arun District Council, [13 Technical Reports, without consecutive pagination] .

The savings rate fell to negative 0.5 %, the fourth consecutive quarter of negative savings.

The figures show three consecutive quarters of falling manufacturing output, the manufacturing recession in Scotland.

Large runabout segment (20 to 29 feet) Cobalt ranks highest in the large runabout segment (20 to 29 feet) Cobalt ranks highest in the large runabout segment for a fifth consecutive time.

Yellow rust of wheat Yellow rust of wheat Yellow rust was widespread in 2000 for the fourth consecutive year.

People who had taken sedatives for five consecutive nights were compared with others taking dummy pills.

After clinching the top spot of European qualifying Group 8, Croatia enters its third consecutive World Cup with high hopes.

Four consecutive foul shots and two, all too rare, long distance three-pointers from Ben Livingston closed the game up to 82-84.

Hence, in a colony of calyptoblastic hydroids, the oldest polyp of a system is the lowest; the youngest polyp is the top F =most one; and the axis of the system is a false axis composed of portions of each of the consecutive polyps.

These are not the words of a man who is following a complete and authoritative poem; judging from the context of the other references to Bleheris he was rather a collector and versifier of short episodic tales, and it seems far more natural to understand Thomas as having wrought into one complete and consecutive form the various poems with which the name of Breri was associated, than to hold that that, or a similar, work had already been achieved by another.

When, for instance, we say that Napoleon ordered armies to go to war, we combine in one simultaneous expression a whole series of consecutive commands dependent one on another.

For the second consecutive year, UEA 's students have given a ringing endorsement of the quality of staff, teaching and student support.

A three day pass entitles you to up to 6 rounds of golf over three consecutive days at a cost of 55 pounds.

Large runabout segment (20 to 29 feet) Cobalt ranks highest in the large runabout segment for a fifth consecutive time.

Yellow rust of wheat Yellow rust was widespread in 2000 for the fourth consecutive year.

Continuous shooting mode approx 3 frames per second for up to 9 consecutive shots.

Risk groups 3 and 4 - three consecutive negative stool specimens taken at weekly intervals.

The 2 nd team managed a 2 nd place finish with 15 points, whilst the women stormed their league with 6 consecutive victories.

This includes four wins in a row between 1926 and 1929 and setting a unique record of five consecutive victories from 1986 to 1990.

The vet gave him shots for three consecutive days, and sold us cat food, a mix of chicken and fish.

However, the collar should be taken off at night, and dogs should not wear the collar for more than 12 consecutive hours.

Remember that the dog should not wear the collar for more than 12 consecutive hours at a time.

It involves taking samples from three consecutive bowel movements.

A person who has had little to no sleep for two consecutive days, may be impaired the same as a person with a blood alcohol level of .05, a level many states consider intoxicated.

In fact, it is possible for you to wear these lenses for up to six consecutive nights, and then replace with a fresh pair.

In many cases, they are not meant to be worn for as many consecutive hours as rigid gas permeable lenses because they don't always allow proper oxygen flow to the eye.

There are no blackout dates and the passes are good for a full 365 consecutive days.

The ticket must be used on two consecutive days.

Legislation brought forward in 1906 introduced an innovation in assigning a salary of $7000 to the recognized leader of the Opposition, and pensions amounting to half their official income to ex-cabinet ministers who have occupied their posts for five consecutive years.

An account is charged off when an account has not had any payments for several consecutive months.

The premium policy covers you for up to 42 consecutive days, unless you live in Washington State; in that case, you are limited to 30 days.

You will also receive a 2% APR reduction as soon as you make purchases and pay on time for three consecutive months.

The formulas must be used over a period of consecutive days (usually a series of weeks) in order to see visible results, and the directions must be followed to the letter.

A two percent reduction in APR is promised to cardholders who pay their bill on time for three consecutive months.