sequential

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 6.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Succeeding or following in order.
2. adjective Expressing succession of events.
3. adjective Executed as a sequence of instructions, without concurrency or parallelism.

Similar words

consecutive successive sequent serial ordered consequential subsequent back-to-back step-by-step sequencing

Often followed by

order and file access analysis steps circuits files processing

Word family

sequence sequenced sequences sequencing sequentially