(computing, telecommunications) An escape character together with subsequent characters, not output as written, but specifying a particular behaviour.

(statistics, probability theory) A sequence of identically distributed random variables.

(number theory, algebra) Any sequence of integers {aₙ}, indexed by the natural numbers, such that if n is divisible by m then aₙ is divisible by aₘ.

(video games) The performing of actions or obtaining of items out of the linear order intended by the game's designers, either as a challenge or in order to skip certain sections of the game.

A form of dance in which a set pattern of movements is followed.

(number theory) For a given positive integer n, the sequence of completely reduced fractions between 0 and 1 which, when in lowest terms, have denominators less than or equal to n, arranged in order of increasing size.

(genetics) A small section of codon nucleotide sequences that controls the rate of ribosomal frameshifting.

plural of sequence dance

(mathematics) A sequence of natural numbers generated from an initial value m, starting with that value, and proceeding by performing certain operations on it. Although such sequences rapidly produce very large numbers, they always terminate at zero.

(mathematics) A monotonic nonincreasing sequence of the vertex degrees of the vertices of a graph