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subsequence (countable anduncountable,pluralsubsequences)
- Asubsequent act or thing; asequel.
- The state of being subsequent.
1818,Thomas Brown,Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect, third edition,page83:It must be remembered, that what we call exertion, in our bodily operations, is nothing more, as we have seen, than thesubsequence of muscular motion to the feeling which we denominate desire or will; as magnetic action, in a process purely material, is thesubsequence of the motion of iron to the approach of a loadstone.
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subsequence (pluralsubsequences)
- (mathematics) Asequence that is contained within a larger one.
- (computer science) Asubset of anarray with the sameordering.
In computer science, a subsequence is to be contrasted with asubarray. A subarray must be a contiguous subset of the array, a stronger condition than merely having the same ordering, thus making it a special case of a subsequence.
sequence that is contained within a larger one
