subsequent

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subsequents

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.

   • Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.

2. 2.Following in order of place; succeeding.

3. 3.Following a line in the earth that is more easily eroded.

   • The peculiar position of the subsequent Derwent, close to the sea, suggests some glacial interference with normal adjustments, and calls for special explanation.

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Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A subsequent stream or faultline.

   • When the Middle Wye was turned into the Severn system it still continued the northward subsequent, which of course may have been initiated as a tributary when the Middle Wye belonged to the Thames system.

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