consecutive

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consecutive /kənˈsɛkjʊtɪv/

▶adjective

• 1 following continuously.

  ■ in sequence.

• 2 Grammar expressing consequence or result.

• 3 Music denoting intervals of the same kind occurring in succession between two parts or voices.

– derivatives
consecutively adverb,
consecutiveness noun.

– origin C17: from Fr. consécutif, -ive, from med. L. consecutivus, from L. consecut-, consequi ‘follow closely’.