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Subsequence
Description:
A subsequence is a sequence that can be derived from another sequence by deleting some or no elements without changing the order of the remaining elements.
Senses and Usages:
- Noun:
- A subsequence in mathematics refers to a sequence that is obtained by removing zero or more elements from a given sequence while maintaining their relative order.
- In computer science, a subsequence commonly refers to a sequence of elements from a certain sequence, possibly non-contiguous, that appears in the same order.
- In genetics, a subsequence refers to a specific sequence of nucleotides within a longer DNA or RNA sequence.
- Verb:
- In mathematics, to subsequence means to create a subset of terms from a given sequence by removing some of them.
- In computer programming, to subsequence means to extract a certain subpart from a given sequence or string of elements.
- Living organisms subsequence their DNA to produce proteins during the transcription process.
Sample Sentences:
- He discovered a subsequence in the Fibonacci Sequence by removing all even numbers.
- The string "abc" is a subsequence of the string "abdc".
- The geneticist found a subsequence responsible for a specific phenotype.
- Please subsequence the given sequence and remove the duplicate elements.
- The program allows you to subsequence a video to select and extract specific frames.
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