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Sequence vs. Ordinal — What's the Difference?

Sequence vs. Ordinal — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Sequence and Ordinal

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Sequence

In mathematics, a sequence is an enumerated collection of objects in which repetitions are allowed and order matters. Like a set, it contains members (also called elements, or terms).

Ordinal

Being of a specified position in a numbered series
An ordinal rank of seventh.

Sequence

A particular order in which related things follow each other
The poems should be read in sequence
The content of the programme should follow a logical sequence

Ordinal

Of or relating to a taxonomic order.

Sequence

A set of related events, movements, or items that follow each other in a particular order
A gruelling sequence of exercises
A sonnet sequence
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Ordinal

An ordinal number.

Sequence

A part of a film dealing with one particular event or topic
The famous underwater sequence

Ordinal

A book of instructions for daily services.

Sequence

(in the Eucharist) a hymn said or sung after the Gradual or Alleluia that precedes the Gospel.

Ordinal

A book of forms for ordination.

Sequence

Arrange in a particular order
Trainee librarians decide how a set of misfiled cards could be sequenced

Ordinal

Indicating position in a sequence.

Sequence

Play or record (music) with a sequencer.

Ordinal

(taxonomy) Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of order.

Sequence

A following of one thing after another; succession.

Ordinal

(nautical) Intercardinal.

Sequence

An order of succession; an arrangement.

Ordinal

An ordinal number such as first, second and third.

Sequence

A related or continuous series.

Ordinal

A book used in the ordination of Anglican ministers, or in certain Roman Catholic services

Sequence

(Games) Three or more playing cards in consecutive order and usually the same suit; a run.

Ordinal

Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc. Contrasted to cardinal.

Sequence

A series of related shots that constitute a complete unit of action in a movie.

Ordinal

Of or pertaining to an order.

Sequence

(Music) A melodic or harmonic pattern successively repeated at different pitches with or without a key change.

Ordinal

A word or number denoting order or succession.

Sequence

Roman Catholic Church A hymn sung between the gradual and the Gospel.

Ordinal

The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.

Sequence

(Mathematics) An ordered set of quantities, as x, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4.

Ordinal

A book containing the rubrics of the Mass.

Sequence

(Biochemistry) The order of constituents in a polymer, especially the order of nucleotides in a nucleic acid or of the amino acids in a protein.

Ordinal

The number designating place in an ordered sequence

Sequence

To organize or arrange in a sequence.

Ordinal

Of or relating to a taxonomic order;
Family and ordinal names of animals and plants

Sequence

To determine the order of constituents in (a polymer, such as a nucleic acid or protein molecule).

Ordinal

Being or denoting a numerical order in a series;
Ordinal numbers
Held an ordinal rank of seventh

Sequence

A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series

Sequence

(uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
Complete the listed tasks in sequence.

Sequence

A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).

Sequence

A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.

Sequence

(mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.

Sequence

A subsequent event; a consequence or result.

Sequence

A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.

Sequence

(card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.

Sequence

(transitive) to arrange in an order

Sequence

To determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid

Sequence

(transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer

Sequence

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
How art thou a kingBut by fair sequence and succession?
Sequence and series of the seasons of the year.

Sequence

That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment.

Sequence

Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.

Sequence

Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.

Sequence

A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
Originally the sequence was called a Prose, because its early form was rhythmical prose.

Sequence

Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.

Sequence

The specific order of any linear arrangement of items; as, the sequence of amino acid residues in a protein; the sequence of instructions in a computer program; the sequence of acts in a variety show.

Sequence

To determine the sequence of; as, to sequence a protein or a DNA fragment.

Sequence

Serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern;
The sequence of names was alphabetical
He invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA

Sequence

A following of one thing after another in time;
The doctor saw a sequence of patients

Sequence

Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie

Sequence

The action of following in order;
He played the trumps in sequence

Sequence

Several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys

Sequence

Arrange in a sequence

Sequence

Determine the order of constituents in;
They sequenced the human genome

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