sequence

«sequence» in Mova's school dictionary: A set of things that come one after another in a certain… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a sequence, sequences); verb (sequence, sequences, sequenced, sequencing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A set of things that come one after another in a certain order. tree →

2) (maths) A list of numbers or shapes that follow a rule (2, 4, 6, 8 …). tree →

3) The order in which things happen (put the pictures in sequence). tree →

4) A part of a film or a story showing connected events. tree →

5) (verb) To put things in order; (science) to find the order of parts in DNA. tree →

sense in the lessons

Very common in maths: number sequences, finding the rule, the next term, the nth term. In English, sequencing events in a story; in computing, a sequence of instructions. Phrases: «in sequence», «out of sequence», «a sequence of», «the next number in the sequence».

examples

• What is the next number in the sequence 3, 6, 9, 12? tree →
• Put the story pictures in the right sequence. tree →
• The sequence goes up by 5 each time. tree →
• A computer follows a sequence of instructions. tree →
• The film has an exciting chase sequence. tree →
• The pages are out of sequence. tree →
• Scientists sequenced the virus's genes. tree →
• But I have in one case altered the sequence of events putting the fight with the giant last." tree →

note

Countable. Each number in a sequence is a «term». In maths: find the rule by looking at the difference between terms (5, 8, 11: add 3 each time; the next term is 14). A sequence has an order; a set does not.

In the corpora

• Stars spend about 90% of their lives steadily fusing hydrogen into helium, a stage astronomers call the main sequence.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sequence» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.