sequence
 se·quence (sēʹkwəns, -kwĕns')n.
1. A following of one thing after another; succession.
2. An order of succession; an arrangement.
3. A related or continuous series. See Synonyms at series.
4. Games. Three or more playing cards in consecutive order; a run.
5. A series of related shots that constitute a complete unit of action in a movie.
6. Music. A melodic or harmonic pattern successively repeated at different pitches with or without a key change.
7. Roman Catholic Church. A hymn sung between the gradual and the Gospel.
8. Mathematics. An ordered set of quantities, as x, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4.
9. Biochemistry. The order of constituents in a polymer, especially the order of nucleotides in a nucleic acid or of the amino acids in a protein.tr.v. se·quenced, se·quenc·ing, se·quenc·es
1. To organize or arrange in a sequence.
2. To determine the order of constituents in (a polymer, such as a nucleic acid or protein molecule). [Middle English, a type of hymn, from Old French, from Medieval Latin sequentia, hymn, that which follows (from its following the alleluia), from Late Latin, from Latin sequēns, sequent- present participle of sequī, to follow. See sekʷ-1 in Indo-European Roots.]
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