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Another word for sequent

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Adjective

  1. Following one after another in an orderly pattern

    See also:

    time

    precede

Noun

  1. Something brought about by a cause

      1. The final result; the outcome.
      2. The central idea or point; gist.
      1. A following of one thing after another; succession.
      2. An order of succession; an arrangement.
      3. A related or continuous series.
      1. Something that follows as a continuation, especially a literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose narrative continues that of a preexisting work.
      2. A result or consequence:
      1. Issuing or following as a consequence or result.
      2. Something that results; an outcome.
      3. A single vector that is the equivalent of a set of vectors.
      1. To happen as a consequence:
      2. To end in a particular way:
      3. Something that follows naturally from a particular action, operation, or course; a consequence or outcome.
      1. A development or consequence growing out of and sometimes complicating a problem, plan, or statement:
      2. The act or process of branching out or dividing into branches.
      3. A subordinate part extending from a main body; a branch.
      1. To cause to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely:
      2. To cause to fall down from a height; hurl downward:
      3. To put suddenly into a certain state or condition:
      1. An end result; a consequence.
      1. A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute:
      2. A matter of public concern:
      3. A misgiving, objection, or complaint:
      1. The act or process of gathering a crop.
      2. The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.
      3. The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.
      1. The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
      2. An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
      3. A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food:
      1. Something that takes place, especially a significant occurrence.
      2. A social gathering or activity:
      3. A contest in a sports competition, such as a meet:
      1. The result of a completed series of processes or changes.
      1. Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result.
      2. The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result:
      3. Advantage; avail:
      1. A proposition that follows with little or no proof required from one already proven.
      2. A deduction or an inference.
      3. A natural consequence or effect; a result.
      1. Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition.
      2. A logical conclusion or inference.
      3. Importance in rank or position:
      1. A consequence, especially of a disaster or misfortune:
      2. A period of time following a disastrous event:
      3. A second growth or crop in the same season, as of grass after mowing.
    See also:

    cause

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Sentence Examples

  • It is certainly a very striking fact that wherever we have been able to trace genetic series, either of invertebrates or vertebrates, in closely sequent geological horizons, or life zones, we find strong proof of evolution through extremely gradual mutation simultaneously affecting many parts of each organism, as set forth above.

  • It is possible to treat will as a permanent cause manifesting itself through a series of sequent changes, and obedient to the laws which govern the development of the personality of the single individual.

  • Thence he despatched telegrams to Italy throwing blame for the defeat upon his troops, a proceeding which sub- sequent evidence proved to be as unjustifiable as it was unsoldierlike.

  • Recently, I started working on X, a calculus based on the sequent calculus for Classical Logic.

  • We can also speak of a counterexample to a semantic sequent.

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