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The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.
Morton Feldman

Meaning of "precedence" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRECEDENCE

precedence  [ˈprɛsɪdəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRECEDENCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Precedence is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PRECEDENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Precedence

Precedence may refer to: ▪ Message precedence of military communications traffic ▪ Order of precedence, the ceremonial hierarchy within a nation or state ▪ Order of operations, in mathematics and computer programming ▪ Precedence Entertainment, a defunct American game publisher ▪ Precedence, a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards ▪ Precedence, a brand of SPECT/CT scanner manufactured by Philips...

Definition of precedence in the English dictionary

The first definition of precedence in the dictionary is the act of preceding or the condition of being precedent. Other definition of precedence is the ceremonial order or priority to be observed by persons of different stations on formal occasions. Precedence is also a right to preferential treatment.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRECEDENCE


abidance
əˈbaɪdəns
accidence
ˈæksɪdəns
anticoincidence
ˌæntɪkəʊˈɪnsɪdəns
avoidance
əˈvɔɪdəns
cadence
ˈkeɪdəns
coincidence
kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns
confidence
ˈkɒnfɪdəns
diffidence
ˈdɪfɪdəns
dissidence
ˈdɪsɪdəns
evidence
ˈɛvɪdəns
guidance
ˈɡaɪdəns
incidence
ˈɪnsɪdəns
misguidance
ˌmɪsˈɡaɪdəns
noncoincidence
ˌnɒnkəʊˈɪnsɪdəns
overconfidence
ˌəʊvəˈkɒnfɪdəns
procidence
ˈprəʊsɪdəns
providence
ˈprɒvɪdəns
residence
ˈrɛzɪdəns
riddance
ˈrɪdəns
subsidence
səbˈsaɪdəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRECEDENCE

precede
precedency
precedent
precedented
precedential
precedentially
precedently
preceding
precensor
precent
precentor
precentorial
precentorship
precentress
precentrix
precept
preceptial
preceptive
preceptively
preceptor

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRECEDENCE

angle of incidence
at your convenience
correspondence
credence
crisis of confidence
decadence
Declaration of Independence
dependence
documentary evidence
hall of residence
in confidence
in evidence
in residence
independence
interdependence
jurisprudence
letters of credence
prudence
self-confidence
transcendence
vote of no confidence

Synonyms and antonyms of precedence in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PRECEDENCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «precedence» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of precedence

Translation of «precedence» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRECEDENCE

Find out the translation of precedence to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of precedence from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «precedence» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

优先性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

preferencia
570 millions of speakers

English

precedence
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पूर्वता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأسبقية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

приоритет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

precedência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রাধান্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

préséance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keutamaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vorrang
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

優先
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우선순위
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Precedene
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ưu tiên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முன்னுரிமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्राधान्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

öncelik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

precedenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pierwszeństwo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пріоритет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prioritate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προτεραιότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voorrang
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

företräde
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forrang
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of precedence

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRECEDENCE»

The term «precedence» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.235 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRECEDENCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «precedence» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «precedence» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about precedence

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10 QUOTES WITH «PRECEDENCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word precedence.
1
Gary Ryan Blair
Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
2
James Bovard
It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.
3
Kobe Bryant
Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.
4
Edward Dmytryk
The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
5
Lexa Doig
My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work.
6
Emilio Estevez
We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.
7
Morton Feldman
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.
8
Richard P. Feynman
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
9
Richard P. Feynman
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
10
William Glasser
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRECEDENCE»

Discover the use of precedence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to precedence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Precedence: Social Differentiation in the Austronesian World
This collection of papers is the sixth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series.
Michael P. Vischer, 2009
2
Precedence-Type Tests and Applications
This book is a recommended reference for researchers and practitioners in reliability and life-time data analysis, applied probabilists, and engineers.
N. Balakrishnan, H. K. Tony Ng, 2006
3
Precedence
"Armantrout's poems ride the fence of the Language School movement. PRECEDENCE features poems of wit and humor not typical of the movement"--John Stickney, The Columbus Dispatch.
Rae Armantrout, 1985
4
Digestion Takes Precedence Over Disease
And it s not going to cost you an arm or a leg, a lot of time and energy, or fear of the unknown. Inside this very book you will receive the equivalent of volumes of information from some of the greatest minds on the subject of health.
Anthony Raphael Leon, 2008
5
Heraldic Anomalies: Or, Rank Confusion in Our Orders of ...
PRECEDENCE. THOUGH much has been already said upon the subject of Precedence, yet it still seems to deserve a Section to itself, as particularly connected with the title of my book, and a subject of pressing importance, in the affairs of this ...
Edward Nares, 1823
6
Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on ...
This volume provides new insights into the nature of legitimate leadership in the formative period of Islam through analysis of a specific discourse framed around the two key Qur' nic concepts of moreal excellence ("fad l/fad la") and ...
Asma Afsaruddin, 2002
7
Legal Aspects of Architecture, Engineering & the ...
The government argues, however, that Franchi limits the applicability of the order of precedence clause to situations in which the contractor was not aware of the discrepancy prior to bidding and notes that Hensel Phelps' subcontractor knew of  ...
Justin Sweet, Marc Schneier, 2008
8
Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide
Detailed description of simple and extended precedence. A table generation algorithm is given. Part 2 contains the complete precedence table plus functions for the language EULER. Colmerauer, A. Précedence, analyse syntactique et ...
Dick Grune, Ceriel J.H. Jacobs, 2007
9
Design and Implementation of a Restricted Precedence ...
Concurrency control is one of the most important issues in database management that attracted many researches.
Chau Tran, 2007
10
Cisco IOS 12.0 Quality of Service
For historical reasons, each precedence corresponds to a name. These names, which continue to evolve, are defined in the RFC 79l document. Table l-l lists the numbers and their corresponding names, from least to most important. Table 1-1  ...
‎1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRECEDENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term precedence is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Richmond man faces federal charges in home captivity case
The federal case takes precedence over the local jurisdiction, and the Contra Costa District Attorney's office said the case was never presented ... «SFGate, Jul 15»
2
Hotly contested seawall in upscale community sails toward reality …
“At what point does a budget proviso, if at all ... take precedence over an existing statute? “I do think this is an interesting case in front of us.''. «The State, Jul 15»
3
The Syria Sham and the Iran Deal
In other words, the political need to get Mr. Assad to hand over his declared stockpile took precedence over keeping the regime honest. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
4
Big guns step up spring preparations in barrier trials at Randwick
BETTER LAND Peter G Moody. GUST OF WIND (NZ) John Sargent. PRECEDENCE (NZ) Bart & James Cummings. SWEYNESSE John O'Shea. «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
5
NASCAR Indianapolis 2015 recap: Defiant Kyle Busch proving …
In this instance, officials were following past precedence by allowing Busch to determine his own Chase fate. If he was deserving, the proof ... «SB Nation, Jul 15»
6
Gloucester: Federal judge to issue written opinion on injunction in …
"What happens here is a question of precedence," Doumar said. "I worry about precedence. If we cut out the (policy), does it mean anyone who ... «Daily Press, Jul 15»
7
Canberra, Washington voice concern over fate of village, but is it too …
... especially considering the long established case law and precedence that all points to complete authority of the [Israeli] Civil Administration ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
8
Shahin Vallée: Either Germany or France will decide that the euro is …
... a recalcitrant and amateurish far-left government in Greece should take precedence over 60 years of European consensus built painstakingly ... «National Post, Jul 15»
9
Shaming has no place in the synagogue
Raziel's answer: Not embarrassing the reader takes precedence over ... is d'oraita (a law from the written Torah) and so takes precedence. «Haaretz, Jul 15»
10
AP-CT--Connecticut News Digest 6 pm, CT
Expected stories may not develop, or late-breaking and more newsworthy events may take precedence. Advisories and digests will keep you ... «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»

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