sequence

Noun

• several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys

• the action of following in order
  • he played the trumps in sequence
    

• film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie

• a following of one thing after another in time
  • the doctor saw a sequence of patients
    

• serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern
  • the sequence of names was alphabetical
    
  • he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA
    

Verb

• determine the order of constituents in
  • They sequenced the human genome
    

• arrange in a sequence

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  succession , episode , chronological sequence , successiveness , chronological succession