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Definition of succession

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Succession (n.) The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne..

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Sequence :: Sequence (n.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences..

Pitapat :: Pitapat (adv.) In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats.

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..

String :: String (n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments..

Heirdom :: Heirdom (n.) The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.

Repeating :: Repeating (a.) Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch..

Retrograde :: Retrograde (a.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet..

Chain :: Chain (n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas..

Continuance :: Continuance (n.) Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation.

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..

Dribble :: Dribble (v. i.) To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves..

Ordinal :: Ordinal (a.) Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc..

Music :: Music (n.) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.

Seriality :: Seriality (n.) The quality or state of succession in a series; sequence.

On :: On (prep.) Forward, in succession; as, from father to son, from the son to the grandson, and so on..

Arpeggio :: Arpeggio (n.) The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played..

Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters..

Rustle :: Rustle (v. i.) To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves..

Round :: Round (n.) Rotation, as in office; succession..

Variety :: Variety (n.) The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.