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- Successive - a. - Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
- Successive - a. - Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire.
- Successively - adv. - In a successive manner.
- Successiveness - n. - The quality or state of being successive.
- Diphyodont - n. - An animal having two successive sets of teeth.
- Homodynamous - a. - Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy; as, successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals.
- Unfold - v. t. - To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science.
- Anaphora - n. - A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.
- Dichotomy - n. - Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.
- Successive - a. - Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
- Elaboration - n. - The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
- Batter - v. t. - To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.
- Elaborate - v. t. - To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.
- Rhumb - n. - A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic.
- Successive - a. - Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire.
- Ephemeris - n. - Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days.
- Motion - n. - Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
- Monotone - n. - The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.
- Sputter - v. t. - To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
- Nebuly - a. - Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.
- Synodical - a. - Pertaining to conjunction, especially to the period between two successive conjunctions; extending from one conjunction, as of the moon or a planet with the sun, to the next; as, a synodical month (see Lunar month, under Month); the synodical revolution of the moon or a planet.
- Phenakistoscope - n. - A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a screen.
- Propagation - n. - The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants.
- Wick - n. - A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned.
- Successively - adv. - In a successive manner.
- Graduate - n. & v. - Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
- Climate - v. i. - One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.
- Unsymmetrical - a. - Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry.
- Epistrophe - n. - A figure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation; e. g., "Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I."
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