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Sequence :: Sequence (n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.

Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation..

Dichotomy :: Dichotomy (n.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation..

Turn :: Turn (n.) One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander..

Pasteurism :: Pasteurism (n.) A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength..

Ephemeris :: Ephemeris (n.) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days..

Musket :: Musket (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.

Running :: Running (a.) Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running..

Daily :: Daily (a.) Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin..

Successively :: Successive (a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire..

Monitor :: Monitor (n.) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting..

Monotone :: Monotone (n.) The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch..

Modulation :: Modulation (n.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations..

Phenakistoscope :: Phenakistoscope (n.) A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a screen..

Anaphora :: Anaphora (n.) A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

Deal :: Deal (n.) To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out..

Still :: Still (a.) In continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly.

Run :: Run (n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights..

Climate :: Climate (v. i.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day..

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