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   Suc·ces·sion

   /səkˈseSH(ə)n/

   

   noun

   • 1. a number of people or things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after the other: "she had been secretary to a succession of board directors" Similar sequenceseriesprogressioncoursechaincycleroundstringtrainlinelineupruncontinuationflowstreamconcatenation
   • ▪ a group of strata representing a single chronological sequence: "the Cretaceous succession"
   • 2. the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc.: "the new king was already elderly at the time of his succession" Similar accessionelevationinheritance ofassumption of
   • ▪ the right or sequence of inheriting a position, title, etc.: "the succession to the Crown was disputed" Similar line of descentlinedescentancestral lineblood lineancestrydynastylineagegenealogyheritagepedigreeextractionderivationstockstrainbackground
   • ▪ the process by which a plant or animal community successively gives way to another until a stable climax is reached.

   Word Origin Middle English (denoting legal transmission of an estate or the throne to another, also in the sense ‘successors, heirs’): from Old French, or from Latin successio(n-), from the verb succedere (see succeed).

   Derivatives

   • 1. successional adjective

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   What does succession mean?

   • a number of persons or things following one another in order or sequence. the right, act, or process, by which one person succeeds to the office, rank, estate, or the like, of another. the order or line of those entitled to succeed one another. the descent or transmission of a throne, dignity, estate, or the like. Also called ecological succession.

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   Are successions by male kin the same as successions?

   • The case was the same with successions by male kin. In addition, in 15 per cent of successions, the successor had been adopted by the family. The successions represent two deepening-upward sequences, both starting as fluvial (braided river) systems and ending as shallow marine tidally dominated environments.

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   What was life like in rapid succession?

   • Life was just an endless succession of parties and dinners. in rapid succession She had her first three children in rapid succession. succession to His divorce will not prevent the Prince of Wales's succession to the throne. line of succession Who comes after the vice-president in the presidential line of succession?

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   What is a new succession?

   • A set of persons or things succeeding in the place of others. That That, which look'd like Pride in some, and like Petulance in others, would..be in time wrought off, or, in a new Succession, reform'd. While the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear.

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