Hypertext Webster Gateway: "successive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Successive \Suc*ces"sive\, a. [Cf. F. successif. See {Succeed}.]
1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming
after without interruption or interval; following one
after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the
successive revolution of years; the successive kings of
Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
Send the successive ills through ages down. --Prior.
2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an
inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a
successive title; a successive empire. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Successive induction}. (Math.) See {Induction}, 5.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
successive
adj : in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn:
{consecutive}, {sequent}, {sequential}, {serial}]
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