Definition of succession

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Succession (n.) The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters..

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Successive :: Successionist (n.) A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid..
Chaparral :: Chaparral (n.) An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.
Swell :: Swell (n.) A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor..
Figure :: Figure (n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression..
Scale :: Scale (n.) Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being..
Drill :: Drill (n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press..
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession..
Flux :: Flux (n.) The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change..
Genealogy :: Genealogy (n.) An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.
Homage :: Homage (n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign..
Hook :: Hook (n.) A field sown two years in succession.
Succession :: Succession (n.) The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters..
Tellurian :: Tellurian (n.) An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons..
Ensue :: Ensue (v. i.) To follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one..
Section :: Section (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile..
Last :: Last (a.) Being after all the others, similarly classed or considered, in time, place, or order of succession; following all the rest; final; hindmost; farthest; as, the last year of a century; the last man in a line of soldiers; the last page in a book; his last chance..
Rattle :: Rattle (v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter..
Distance :: Distance (n.) Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor..
Patter :: Patter (v. i.) To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet..
Bang :: Bang (v. i.) To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano..
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