■ noun
1》 a number of people or things following one after the other.
2》 the action, process, or right of inheriting an office, title, etc.
↘ Ecology the process by which a plant or animal community successively gives way to another until a stable climax is reached.
Phrases
in quick (or rapid ) ~ following one another at short intervals.
in ~ following one after the other without interruption.
in ~ to inheriting or elected to the place of.
Derivatives
~al adjective