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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sequential
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
approach
▪ The adoption of a sequential approach to assessing the development potential of sites and the redevelopment potential of existing buildings.
file
▪ It is equally true that they are not as suitable for a truly mixed sequential-direct application as indexed sequential files.
▪ The former will tend to require an indexed sequential file on a direct access device.
▪ The file designer will find it worthwhile to examine every direct processing application of an indexed sequential file critically.
▪ This will mean that the data requires more direct access storage space than a sequential file.
▪ A sequential data file that is indexed is called an indexed sequential file.
▪ If this applies, small indexed sequential files bear a heavy burden compared with larger files.
▪ However, there is more housekeeping activity in handling an indexed sequential file than the corresponding sequentially organized file.
▪ Fig. 5.7 Index sequential files - overflow block Random access offers another way of organising data on disk for quick access.
processing
▪ The sequential processing requires special measures in order to integrate the activities involved.
▪ Thus index sequential files, even when processed by key, do not eliminate sequential processing, but limit it to one block.
▪ The project must have attributes which allow sequential processing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sequential arrangement
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sequential data file that is indexed is called an indexed sequential file.
▪ Although it may seem strange to simulate a parallel process on a sequential machine, there have been many benefits.
▪ By this, presumably, was meant the isolation of single figures in sequential positions like a Muybridge series in three dimensions.
▪ Life on this turbulent, complex planet is no longer linear and sequential, one thing logically leading to another.
▪ The file designer will find it worthwhile to examine every direct processing application of an indexed sequential file critically.
▪ The former will tend to require an indexed sequential file on a direct access device.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sequential

Sequential \Se*quen"tial\, a. Succeeding or following in order. -- Se*quen"tial*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sequential

1816, from Late Latin sequentia (see sequence) + -al (1). Related: Sequentially.

Wiktionary
sequential

a. Succeeding or following in order.

WordNet
sequential

adj. in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn: consecutive, sequent, serial, successive]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "sequential".

Like a torrent bursting through a broached dam, the Warden dispatched sequential images unveiling the full course of events.

Yet where the order and linearity of sequential memory characterize the nineteenth-century novel, as the twentieth dawned, temporal order disintegrated.

It was obviously encrypted, but what sort of a code: logarithmic, exponential, random, or variable sequential?

Anything that one did in the next level was sequential, with respect to the higher time base, to the events in the lower level.

It sensed the collapse of the hull, the propagation of the plasma front, the sequential vaporization of its process-control modules, watching the plasma eat it alive, finally howling in electronic pain as the plasma devoured it.

In other words, data, in the form of a jumble of impressions, begins accumulating in certain sequential patterns, to a point where a preverbal position, or conclusion, is possible.

I wish, by sight-aligning a reticle and numbering it verbally or by touch if I want other than sequential priority.

Richard slowly turned each over, idly looking for anything that made sense to him as Zedd droned on about overlapping transpositional forks and triple duplexes bound to conjugated roots compromised by precession and sequential, proportional, binary inversions shrouding flawed bifurcations that the formulas revealed which could only be detected through Subtractive levorotatory.

The speed limitation could be overcome if computers could be designed more like brains - that is, capable of parallel and distributed rather than sequential and linear operations.

The absorbed energy initiated a branching reaction, a sequential one photon architecture-a set of wavelength keys fitted across the darkness into a self-repairing chromophore lock originally built of bacterial protein.

For practical purposes the lake had no bottom at all, and Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.

Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.

Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.

It may be that the response to sequential notes is what actually matters and requires explanation in an evolutionary framework, and that the response to simultaneous notes is an accidental side-effect of the ability to respond to notes of a chord sequentially.

Time, again, has been described as some sort of a sequence upon Movement, but we learn nothing from this, nothing is said, until we know what it is that produces this sequential thing: probably the cause and not the result would turn out to be Time.