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Definition of succession

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Succession (n.) The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne..

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Success :: Success (n.) Act of succeeding; succession.

Suite :: Suite (n.) A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6..

Homodromous :: Homodromous (a.) Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches..

Rattle :: Rattle (v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter..

Chaparral :: Chaparral (n.) An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.

Revolution :: Revolution (n.) The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events..

Rattle :: Rattle (n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum..

Tabular :: Tabular (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.

Successionist :: Successional (a.) Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.

Vicissitude :: Vicissitude (n.) Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.

Trill :: Trill (n.) A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth -- tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip -- against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages..

Consecution :: Consecution (n.) A succession or series of any kind.

Arpeggio :: Arpeggio (n.) The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played..

Patter :: Patter (v. i.) To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet..

Continuity :: Continuity (n.) the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers..

Alternately :: Alternately (adv.) In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

Alternity :: Alternity (n.) Succession by turns; alternation.

Figure :: Figure (n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression..

String :: String (n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments..

Succession :: Succession (n.) The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order..