Dictionary entry

Consecutive

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐sec″u‐tive (?), a. [Cf. F. consécutif. See Consequent.] 1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.

2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.

The actions of a man consecutive to volition.

Locke.

3. (Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; — said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden.

Consecutive chords(Mus.), chords of the same kind succeeding one another without interruption.