A locking mechanism for supporting fast writes of shared variables between two parallel operating system routines, incrementing a counter at each stage to verify consistency.

sequaciousadj

Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded.

sequaciouslyadv

by a logically developed argument.

sequaciousnessnoun

The state or condition of being sequacious.

sequacitynoun

Quality or state of being sequacious.

sequaelaenoun

Misspelling of sequelae.

Sequanianadj

Relating to the Sequani.

sequaniumnoun

An early name for the element neptunium, based on a discredited claim of discovery.

sequantitativeadj

Pertaining to the quantitative analysis of autocorrelation in sequence data.

Sequatchie Countyname

One of 95 counties in Tennessee, United States. County seat: Dunlap.

sequelnoun

The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.

sequelanoun

Chiefly in the plural: a condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one, being either partly or wholly caused by it, or made possible by it.

sequelaenoun

plural of sequela

sequelisationnoun

Alternative spelling of sequelization.

sequeliseverb

Non-Oxford British English standard form of sequelize.

sequelitisnoun

The tendency of a well-received work to spawn many sequels.

sequelizationnoun

The creation of a sequel to a work.

sequelizeverb

To release a sequel to (a work).

sequellizeverb

Alternative spelling of sequelize.

sequenatornoun

A sequencer; a device for determining the sequence of monomers in a polymer, especially amino acids in protein, or bases in DNA.

sequencenoun

A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.

sequence of tensesnoun

Synonym of consecutio temporum.

sequenceabilitynoun

The property of being sequenceable.

sequenceableadj

That can be sequenced.

sequencelessadj

Without a sequence.

sequencelessnessnoun

Absence of sequence.

sequencernoun

Any device that activates or deactivates the components of a machine or system according to a preplanned sequence (as in a washing machine, or central heating system).

sequencynoun

Half the number of zero crossings in the time base of a Walsh function.

sequentadj

That comes after in time or order; subsequent.

sequentialadj

Succeeding or following in order.

sequential logicnoun

A form of digital circuit logic where the current outputs depend not only on the current inputs, but also on a memory of past inputs and states.

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