Synonym: order, progression, sequence, series. Similar words: ecological succession, success, successful, successfully, cession, recession, secession, concession. Meaning: [sək'seʃn] n. 1. a following of one thing after another in time 2. a group of people or things arranged or following in order 3. the action of following in order 4. (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established 5. acquisition of property by descent or by will.
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211. There, during an eight-year period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, large trees began dying in rapid succession.
212. I stood fearfully against a board as in rapid succession the knives flashed through the air and encircled my body.
213. But these were receding and soon ceased altogether, after a burst of three in rapid succession.
214. By 1884 it was announced that Murchison's interpretation of a simple succession of strata was untenable.
215. His elder brother Edwin was next in succession to the baronetcy, but he was a total invalid.
216. Yet, it is as the leader of a succession of celebrated trios that Peterson achieved international stardom four decades ago.
217. The secret of exciting pop lies in corralling a succession of brilliant moments.
218. She helped a succession of youngsters to take part-time degrees by getting them jobs as kitchen porters or trainee cooks.
219. YO-YO would be a more accurate way to describe the succession of U-turns made recently by John Major and his Ministers.
220. Its unintended effect was also to crush a succession of much less well-prepared Republican hopefuls before a single vote had been cast.
221. The flood waters were controlled by a succession of carefully engineered sluice-gates and locks.
222. Increasingly,[sentencedict.com] the tendency is to work for a large number of companies in rapid succession.
223. Elections provide a more stable method of succession, especially in liberal democracies.
224. No team in the history of the Big East has won that many games in succession.
225. The only infiltrator will be Jackson Stephens, the club's new chairman in succession to Hord Hardin.
226. Subsequently, each province, city ( the ground ) government establishs national endowment succession administration.
227. In swift and orderly succession, one stood up as another sat down.
228. National leader, senior official, famous entrepreneur, distinguished scholar stage succession.
229. He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in rapid succession.
230. A melodic interval is the interval between two notes sounded in succession, as in a melody.
231. Succession in control of such an enterprise as the Family was by no means hereditary.
232. He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in a rapid succession.
233. The succession of uranium to potassium ratio anomalies is at about two - mile.
More similar words: ecological succession, success, successful, successfully, cession, recession, secession, concession, accessible, inaccessible, succeed, session, succeed in, compression, aggression, suppression, confession, digression, oppression, profession, expression, depression, impression, professional, congressional, transgression, access, excessive, necessity, recessive.