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succession

nounid 4275·updated May 9, 2026
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A group of people or things arranged or following in order.

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

Process72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
chronological sequencechronological successionecological successionsequencesuccessivenesstaking over
alternatephrasing
Succession
plural
successions
possessive
succession's
pluralpossessive
successions'

Framework definitions

FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 20121 senseview framework →
§1
A group of people or things arranged or following in order.
Wordset Dictionary5 sensesview framework →
§1
acquisition of property by descent or by will
§2
the action of following in order
§3
a following of one thing after another in time
§4
a group of people or things arranged or following in order
§5
(ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established

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