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subsequences

subsequences is the plural of subsequence.

Meaning of subsequence

Noun (1)

subsequence (countable and uncountable, plural subsequences)

  1. A subsequent act or thing; a sequel.
  2. The state of being subsequent.
    • It must be remembered, that what we call exertion, in our bodily operations, is nothing more, as we have seen, than the subsequence of muscular motion to the feeling which we denominate desire or will; as magnetic action, in a process purely material, is the subsequence of the motion of iron to the...1818, Thomas Brown, Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect, third edition, page 83

Noun (2)

subsequence (plural subsequences)

  1. A sequence that is contained within a larger one.
  2. A subset of an array with the same ordering.

Questions about subsequences

What is subsequences the plural of?
Subsequences is the plural of subsequence.

Words near subsequences in the dictionary

  1. subseptate
  2. subseptic
  3. subsepts
  4. subseptuple
  5. subsequence
  6. subsequences
  7. subsequency
  8. subsequent
  9. subsequential
  10. subsequentially
  11. subsequently

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subsequences (page history and authors); subsequence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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