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What does succession mean?

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Noun
  1. An act of following in sequence.
  2. A sequence of things in order.
  3. A passing of royal powers.
  4. A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
  5. (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.
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In 406 the army in Britain elevated the first in a rapid succession of three emperors.
Four children, three boys and a girl, were born in fairly quick succession.
The sports talk station gives you a succession of men whose absorption in a fantasy world is, to me, borderline insane.
A succession of administrations, both Republican and Democratic, had tacitly endorsed this view.
However, a succession of penalty corners from Aldridge resulted in two quick goals and suddenly the game was slipping away again.
He rapped his walking stick hard on the dirty cobblestone path, three times in quick succession.

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