in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts"
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successive
How to use successive in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for successive.
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Meanwhile, the businessman retires to the village having made two successive fortunes first in fisheries and then in real estate development.
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in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts"
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for successive.
adjective
in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts"
See also: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial
Example sentences
Meanwhile, the businessman retires to the village having made two successive fortunes first in fisheries and then in real estate development.
It is now cheaper to throw the broken thing away and get a new one, and take a chance on not having two successive one-chance-in-a-million failures for the user.
With each successive night of observation, the orbital characteristics are determined to greater accuracy, and the cone of potential trajectories is reduced.
As a not-so-intuitive result, the reported probability of a doomsday scenario grows geometrically higher with each successive night of observation.
In these environments, management undergoes a phase shift at a certain level, and successive layers of management are wholly budget-focused, isolated from operational realities.
The whole form and structure and interaction could be made much more malleable, such that the presentation of ideas "adapts" to your brain rather than your brain adapting to a successive, linear, "rectangular", fixed presentation and compensating for it.
If you instead envision a FA as being a flying head that moves back and forward across a tape that is fixed in space, the ideas behind modern CPUs become much more clear: the tape is memory, the FA is a CPU being stepped through successive states, and the 'location' of the FA is the PC register.
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How do you use successive in a sentence?
Meanwhile, the businessman retires to the village having made two successive fortunes first in fisheries and then in real estate development.
What does successive mean?
in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts"
What part of speech is successive?
successive is commonly used as adjective.