consecutively

consecutively

English

Etymology

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English consecutive
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English consecutively

    From consecutive + -ly.

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    Adverb

    consecutively (not comparable)

    1. In a consecutive manner; without interruption.
      Synonyms: successively, in a row
      • 2011, Axel Meyer, Genome Evolution:
        They considered only proteins in the paranome (the set of all duplicate genes in the genome) and numbered them consecutively according to their positions on the chromosomes.

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