consecutive

Pluralconsecutives

1. 1
   adjective

   Following one after another without any break in between.

   Like beads on a string, one right after another.

   The team won five consecutive games this season.

   It rained for three consecutive days last week.

   Similarsuccessive, straight, uninterrupted, continuous, sequential

   Oppositenonconsecutive, intermittent

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2. 2
   adjective

   Ordered so that each step follows the one before in a logical way.

   Like steps on a staircase, where each one leads up to the next.

   He explained his plan in consecutive points, each leading to the next.

   The lesson moved through consecutive ideas that connected together clearly.

   Similarsequential, successive, ordered

3. 3
   nouncountable

   A group of notes or chords made by repeating the same jump in pitch up or down.

   Like walking up a hill in equal steps.

   The teacher pointed out a consecutive in the music she had written.

   Every consecutive in the piece used the same jump in pitch.

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A word form that shows one event happened after another in time.

   Like saying 'and then' to show what happened next.

   The grammar used a consecutive to show the second action came after the first.

   Translators turned each consecutive into 'and then' to keep the events in order.

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5. 5
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A way of interpreting where the interpreter waits, then says it in another language.

   Like taking turns to talk: one person speaks, then the interpreter speaks.

   The court hired an interpreter to do consecutive during the hearing.

   For the small meeting, they chose consecutive instead of simultaneous interpreting.

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