CONSECUTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consecutive mean? 

• CONSECUTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective CONSECUTIVE has 3 senses:

1. one after the other

2. in regular succession without gaps

3. successive (without a break)

  Familiarity information: CONSECUTIVE used as an adjective is uncommon.

• CONSECUTIVE (adverb)
  The adverb CONSECUTIVE has 1 sense:

1. in a consecutive manner

  Familiarity information: CONSECUTIVE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSECUTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One after the other

Synonyms:

back-to-back; consecutive

Context example:

back-to-back home runs

Similar:

succeeding (coming after or following)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In regular succession without gaps

Synonyms:

consecutive; sequent; sequential; serial; successive

Context example:

serial concerts

Similar:

ordered (having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Successive (without a break)

Synonyms:

consecutive; straight

Context example:

sick for five straight days

Similar:

continuous; uninterrupted (continuing in time or space without interruption)

• CONSECUTIVE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a consecutive manner

Synonyms:

consecutive; sequentially

Context example:

we numbered the papers consecutively

Pertainym:

consecutive (in regular succession without gaps)

 Context examples 

A data type comprised of a set of consecutive values of an ordered point in time date and time datatype.

(Interval Point in Time Date and Time Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)

A data type comprised of a set of consecutive values of an ordered point in time date datatype.

(Interval Point in Time Date Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)

A data type comprised of a set of consecutive values of an ordered point in time integer datatype.

(Interval Point in Time Integer Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)

A data type comprised of a set of consecutive values of an ordered base data type.

(Interval Data Type, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A strain that has been maintained by sibling (sister x brother) matings for 20 or more consecutive generations.

(Inbred Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of intermittent failure of atrial electrical impulse conduction to the ventricles, characterized by two or more consecutive non-conducted P waves.

(High Grade Atrioventricular Block by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

He slept a scant five hours, and only one with a constitution of iron could have held himself down, as Martin did, day after day, to nineteen consecutive hours of toil.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A data type comprised of a set of consecutive values of an ordered base, which is an abstract generalization for all value data types that have an order relationship.

(Interval Quantity Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)

The five phases include: cytoreduction, induction given as two consecutive courses, consolidation and maintenance.

(LMB-84 Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

The resumption of meiosis is stimulated by progesterone, which carries the oocyte through two consecutive M-phases (MI and MII) to a second arrest at MII.

(Oocyte Meiosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)