sequential

English

Etymology

From sequence +‎ -al.

Adjective

sequential (not comparable)

1. Succeeding or following in order.

   Antonym: non-sequential

   • 1988, Robert J. Feugate, Steven M. McIntyre, Introduction to VLSI Testing, page 122:

     Hitest keeps the complexity of its pattern generation under control by not allowing extensive time searches in attempts to drive fault data to and through sequential elements. Rather it treats the inputs to sequential elements as pseudoprimary outputs, and treats outputs of sequential elements as pseudoprimary inputs that are fixed for any given simulation time.

   1. (grammar, of a verb and adjective form in Korean) Expressing succession of events.
2. (programming) Executed as a sequence of instructions, without concurrency or parallelism.

Derived terms

• sequential algorithm
• sequential analysis
• sequential art
• sequential art narrative
• sequential compactness
• sequential continuity
• sequential file
• sequential logic
• sequential manual gearbox
• sequential probability ratio test
• sequential reaction
• sequential valve timing

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ- (3 c, 0 e)

Translations

sequential

• Bulgarian: последователен (bg) (posledovatelen)
• Catalan: seqüencial
• Finnish: peräkkäinen (fi), peräkkäis-
• German: sequenziell (de)
• Greek: αλλεπάλληλος (el) (allepállilos)
• Maltese: sekwenzjali
• Romanian: secvențial (ro)
• Spanish: secuencial (es)
• Turkish: sekansiyel

References

• “sequential”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.