Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of succession is as below...

Settle :: Settle (n.) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance..

Stratocracy :: Stratigraphy (n.) That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

Hong :: Hong (n.) A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage..

Line :: Line (n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings..

Sequence :: Sequence (n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.

Inset :: Inset (n.) One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted..

Serial :: Serial (n.) A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical..

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..

Inverse :: Inverse (a.) Opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x..

Aludel :: Aludel (n.) One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation..

Harmony :: Harmony (n.) A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.

Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily..

Revolution :: Revolution (n.) The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events..

Twitter :: Twitter (v. i.) To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises..

Spiritualism :: Spiritualism (n.) The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul -- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte..

Alternity :: Alternity (n.) Succession by turns; alternation.

Successional :: Succession (n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.

Aubaine :: Aubaine (n.) Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.

Faburden :: Faburden (n.) A succession of chords of the sixth.

Reversion :: Reversion (n.) Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession..

Random Fonts

Most Popular