Get to know Successive better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like consecutive or serial.
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Successive meaning
- Coming one after the other in a series.
- Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.
- Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement.
Synonyms of Successive
Using Successive
- The main meaning on this page is: Coming one after the other in a series. | Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary. | Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement.
- Useful related words include: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial.
- In the example corpus, successive often appears in combinations such as: successive governments, second successive, third successive.
Example sentences (20)
For each circuit of the tape, the shift register stored successive bits from each of the tape channels and delivered five successive characters (either Z or ΔZ according to switch selection) to the processors.
Or, in other words: : Animated GIF file showing successive tilings of the plane, and a graph of approximations to the Golden Ratio calculated by dividing successive pairs of Fibonacci numbers, one by the other.
Precision is defined as the minimum difference between two successive mantissa representations; thus it is a function only in the mantissa; while the gap is defined as the difference between two successive numbers.
The Lehmer code lists the numbers of crosses in successive rows, while the inversion table lists the numbers of crosses in successive columns; it is just the Lehmer code for the inverse permutation, and vice versa.
Abu Dhabi Sports Council has confirmed free general admission tickets for all tournament days, giving fans in the UAE the opportunity to witness the world-class field in person for free for the second-successive year at Yas Links.
A comparative study reveals how successive governments neglected the region by not investing enough in developing irrigation.
After a drab 90 minutes ended goalless, Lincoln goalkeeper Lukas Jensen saved spot-kicks from Louis Marsh and Benie Traore to hand the Blades a fourth successive defeat.
After Man City managed to reel in they clinched the Premier League title for a third successive year.
Although successive have tried to end the conflict in Plateau, the violence increased when Governor Caleb Mutfwang assumed office in May.
And we must not forget the most shocking betrayal of all – to women born in the 1950s who have had years of their State Pension stolen from them through the maladministration and bad faith of successive Labour and Tory governments.
AN early goal from Matty McDonald was enough to give the Blue Brazil a second successive win, which saw them move up to ninth place in the Lowland League.
A second opening goal on successive weekends for Joel Senior, meanwhile, is 28/1.
A stunning late strike (his second in successive games) from the trialist midfielder secured Scarborough Athletic a 2-1 win against a talented Hull City U21s side, who included eight trialists in their 19-man squad.
At the other end of the pitch, centre-back Kelleher was outstanding in helping Colchester to victory and keeping a second successive clean sheet.
Benajmin Basso and Vadim Tarasenko made the start in Heat 3, but were split by Danny King but a fine win for Niels-Kristian Iversen over Jason Doyle in the next made it three successive 4-2s.
Brazilian Pietro Fittipaldi will continue as a Haas test and reserve driver for a fifth-successive season in 2023, the Formula One team said on Tuesday.
British duo Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid are also aiming for a fourth successive wheelchair doubles title in the final.
By the end of their initial sessions, there were occasions when they were seated across the room at two pianos, writing successive bars of the new tune.
Celebrities hailed Rinku Singh for his stupendous five successive sixes in the final over of Kolkata Knight Riders thrilling IPL 2023 match against Gujarat Titans.
Chasing a fifth successive home league win, Betis twice went close as Ayoze Perez saw an attempt well saved by Andriy Lunin before Jose bent an effort narrowly wide of the far post.
Common combinations with successive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- successive governments 23×
- second successive 20×
- third successive 17×
- three successive 16×
- fourth successive 13×
- two successive 11×
- in successive 11×
- five successive 8×
- of successive 8×
- successive year 7×