letter sequence

collocation in English

meaningsofletterandsequence

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letter
noun[C]
uk
/ˈlet.ər/us
/ˈlet̬.ɚ/
a written message from one person to another, usually put in an envelope and sent ...
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sequence
noun
uk
/ˈsiː.kwəns/us
/ˈsiː.kwəns/
a series of related things or events, or the order in which they follow ...
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(Definition ofletterandsequencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofletter sequence

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It is also curious that alettersequencewhich is not an initialism can be interpreted as one.
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Each identity word appeared unchanged in sound andlettersequencewithin the three other words of that set.
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Recent data suggest, however, that an individuallettersequenceis selected for fixation and that more than one letter sequence can be selected for attention allocation (processing).
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Each letter unit receives activation from (and sends activation to) the word units, so that a givenlettersequencecan be mapped onto its corresponding lexical representation.
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And if the word contained a predictablelettersequenceand early visual processing had recognised that it was a short word, then the saccade would skip the word altogether.
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For example, the threelettersequenceffi, may be treated as a single glyph.
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Individual aircraft were given letter suffixes, making the code a fourlettersequence.
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The following prints all lines in the file that begin with the letter "a", followed by any one character, followed by thelettersequence"ple".
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The yes response is required if the presentedlettersequenceis a word in either language.
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For instance, thelettersequenceis pronounced differently in "maab" sky and "mabr" in the sky.
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However, registrants may be allowed to choose a number from available numbers in the extantlettersequence.
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Thelettersequence, and indeed the letter inventory is not fixed.
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Consider, for example, the immediate recall of letter sequences.
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The generate-and-test view further predicts that written spelling should surpass oral spelling in the use of legal letter sequences.
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The second inserts a newline as a token boundary after longest matches of letter sequences and other non-whitespace sequences.
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When programming the saccade to the next word, we take into account the familiarity of the letter sequences at the beginning of that word.
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