Consecutive

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

II. Consecutive ·adj 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.

III. Consecutive ·adj 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.