successive
He is the ninth successively named John in the direct family line.
In World War II he held successively higher commands.
Hitler successively moved against Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Simultaneous and consecutive
accompanied by someone/something
accompaniment
accompany
all the whileidiom
along
go along
heavy rotation
in parallelidiom
in rotationidiom
in tandemidiom
minute
process
simultaneousness
soon
step
straight
successive
sync
turn
while

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successively
We make the distances between the boundaries of successively refined regions large enough to reduce this source of error to an acceptable level.
This model is the final iteration in a series of models successively refined or rejected outright through member checks.
The musical output of the system, therefore, was quadraphonic propagation of motifs and variations, which successively got in and out of synchronisation.
We can find the minimum time motions by successively searching for the minimum overload motions.
The suspension was then filtered successively through 500 and 100 m nylon mesh filters.
Figure 14 shows the value of @ from every second element of the 1024-element array for 500 successively measured axial concentration profiles.
Differentiated flexural tectonic subsidence has been successively compensated by accumulation of the sediments within the basin.
Stationary instrumental groups are placed around the audience and successively play sounds of the same pitch and timbre with similar dynamic envelopes (crescendo-decrescendo).
They represent a hierarchical decomposition of audio into successively smaller segments (see figure 1).
Three polar assumptions about economic openness are successively handled.
These elements are then combined by a computational component that builds successively larger structures out of these basic elements.
All groups performed a referent size-selection task in which they were instructed successively to select the larger one of two cardinal numbers.
Because the lexical chains are constructed by successively chaining utterances expressed by different participants in the team, lexicalized concepts flow through and from each participant.
Considering technological adoption in a historical perspective, there are several examples of innovations favoring successively specialization and multitasking during the 20th century.
Through a balance between inheritance and genetic variation, groups of self-replicating entities, or organisms, successively adapt to their surrounding environment through self-replication with variance.
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