sub-sequence2
(ˈsʌbsiːkwəns)
[sub- 7 a, e.]
A sequence contained in or forming part of another sequence; spec. in Math.
| 1908 [see oscillatory a. 3]. 1958 R. C. Moore Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 2) iv. 80 The second division of the Huronian Sequence, named the Cobalt Sub-sequence, has an aggregate thickness of more than 12,000 feet. 1972 A. G. Howson Handbk. Terms Algebra & Anal. xxii. 109 This definition formalises the notion of a subsequence as a sequence derived from the original sequence by the omission of a number (not necessarily finite) of terms. 1975 N. Chomsky Logical Struct. Linguistic Theory ix. 329 The term arrangement of t* may not be the same as the term arrangement of the transformation T defined in the terms of t, although the latter term arrangement must be a subsequence of the former. |