subsequence

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
24
Words With Friends
29
Letters
11

Definition of subsequence

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A subsequent act or thing; a sequel.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A subsequent act or thing; a sequel.
  2. (countable, uncountable)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 approach of a loadstone.”
  3. A sequence that is contained within a larger one.
  4. A subset of an array with the same ordering.

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Etymology

From subsequent.

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

A single letter you can add to subsequence to make another valid word.

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