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acquisition of property by descent or by will the action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence" a group of people or things arranged or following in order; "a succession of stalls offering soft drinks"; "a succession of failures" (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 a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" |
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