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SEQUENT
attendant, consequent, accompanying, concomitant, incidental, ensuant, resultant, sequent, collateral
(adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence; “an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems”; “snags incidental to the changeover in management”; “attendant circumstances”; “the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness”; “the ensuant response to his appeal”; “the resultant savings were considerable”; “collateral target damage from a bombing run”
consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive
(adjective) in regular succession without gaps; “serial concerts”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
sequent (comparative more sequent, superlative most sequent)
(obsolete) That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
(now rare) That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent to, on, upon.
Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.
Noun
sequent (plural sequents)
Something that follows in a given sequence.
(logic) A disjunctive set of logical formulae which is partitioned into two subsets; the first subset, called the antecedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as false, and the second subset, called the succedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as true. (The set is written without set brackets and the separation between the two subsets is denoted by a turnstile symbol, which may be read "give(s)".)
A sequent could be interpreted to correspond to an Existential Graph, whose expression in Existential Graph Interchange Format would be
~[(a) (b) ~[(c)] ~[(d)]], which in ordinary language could be expressed as "a and b give c or d".
(obsolete) A follower.
(maths) A sequential calculus
Source: Wiktionary
Se"quent, a. Etym: [L. sequens, -entis, p. pr. of sequi to follow. See Sue to follow.]
1. Following; succeeding; in continuance. What to this was sequent Thou knowest already. Shak.
2. Following as an effect; consequent.
Se"quent, n.
1. A follower. [R.] Shak.
2. That which follows as a result; a sequence.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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