资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Consecutive \Con*sec"u*tive\, a. [Cf. F. cons['e]cutif. See
   {Consequent}.]
   1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular
      order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession;
      with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.

   2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or
      logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.

            The actions of a man consecutive to volition.
                                                  --Locke.

   3. (Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain
      parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony;
      as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are
      forbidden.

   {Consecutive chords} (Mus.), chords of the same kind
      succeeding one another without interruption.