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SUCCESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Acquisition of property by descent or by will
Synonyms:
succession; taking over
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("succession" is a kind of...):
acquisition (the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The action of following in order
Example:
he played the trumps in sequence
Synonyms:
sequence; succession
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("succession" is a kind of...):
order; ordering (the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "succession"):
chess opening; opening (a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess)
alternation (successive change from one thing or state to another and back again)
Derivation:
succeed (be the successor (of))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A following of one thing after another in time
Example:
the doctor saw a sequence of patients
Synonyms:
chronological sequence; chronological succession; sequence; succession; successiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("succession" is a kind of...):
temporal arrangement; temporal order (arrangement of events in time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "succession"):
pelting; rain (anything happening rapidly or in quick successive)
rotation (a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.))
row (a continuous chronological succession without an interruption)
run (an unbroken chronological sequence)
Derivation:
succeed (be the successor (of))
Sense 4
Meaning:
A group of people or things arranged or following in order
Example:
a succession of failures
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("succession" is a kind of...):
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "succession"):
cascade (a succession of stages or operations or processes or units)
parade (an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things)
run; streak (an unbroken series of events)
Sense 5
Meaning:
(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
Synonyms:
ecological succession; succession
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("succession" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Domain category:
bionomics; ecology; environmental science (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)
Context examples:
A sequence of images displayed in succession giving the illusion of continuous movement.
(Movie, NCI Thesaurus)
The King, the Queen, the Lords, and the Commons were each in succession cursed by the Prince, in spite of the excellent advice which he had given me about the British Constitution.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then the sled lurched ahead in what appeared a rapid succession of jerks, though it never really came to a dead stop again...half an inch...an inch... two inches...
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The aggregate of past events; the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present; a record or narrative description of past events.
(History, NCI Thesaurus)
A type of MRI that takes a series of images of an organ in quick succession and statistically analyzes the differences between the images.
(Functional magnetic resonance imaging, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Passage through time; duration; a systematic or/and orderly succession; a sequence, e.g. course of treatment; a mode of action or behavior; natural development, typical manner of proceeding.
(Course, NCI Thesaurus)
An event or sequence of events that constitute a round or succession of observable phenomena, recurring usually at regular or approximately regular time intervals and in the same sequence.
(Cycle, NCI Thesaurus)
The principle of functional MRI imaging is to take a series of images of an organ in quick succession and to statistically analyze the images for differences among them.
(Functional magnetic resonance imaging, NCI Thesaurus)
A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave- girt land.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In regular succession without gaps.
(Consecutive, NCI Thesaurus)
