successional

Variant of succession

succession definition

suc·ces·sion (sək ses̸h′ən)

noun

  1. the act of succeeding or coming after another in order or sequence or to an office, estate, throne, etc.
  2. the right to succeed to an office, estate, etc.
  3. a number of persons or things coming one after another in time or space; series; sequence a succession of delays
    1. a series of heirs or rightful successors of any kind
    2. the order or line of such a series
  5. Ecol. the slow, regular sequence of changes in the regional development of communities of plants and associated animals, culminating in a climax characteristic of a specific geographical environment

Etymology: OFr < L successio < succedere: see succeed

Related Forms:

succession Idioms

in succession

one after another in a regular series or sequence; successively

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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