Succession

Succession is the act or process of following in order or sequence.

Not to be confused with secession or success.

Governance and politics
  • Order of succession, in politics, the ascension to power by one ruler, official, or monarch after the death, resignation, or removal from office of another, usually in a clearly defined order
  • Succession of states, in international relations, is the process of recognition and acceptance of a newly created state by other states, based on a perceived historical relationship the new state has with a prior state
  • Succession planning, in organizations, identifying and developing individuals to succeed to senior positions in government, business, organizations, etc.

Inheritance
  • Apostolic succession, the doctrine, held by some Christian denominations, that bishops are the successors of the original Twelve Apostles, inheriting their spiritual, ecclesiastical and sacramental authority, power, and responsibility
  • Succession of property, or inheritance, in law, is the passage of an individual's property to one or more dependents according to a formula set out in law, religion, custom or under the terms of a trust
    • Succession (conflict), inheritance when more than one jurisdiction is involved, and there may be a conflict of law

Science and mathematics
  • Succession (geology), in geology, a group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order
  • Ecological succession, the series of changes in an ecological community that occur over time after a disturbance. It can be:
  • Primary succession, when there is a new substrate with no existing vegetation, as after a volcanic lava flow, or
  • Secondary succession, when the substrate has sustained vegetation, as after a fire or flood

Arts, entertainment, and media
  • "Succession" (30 Rock), an episode of 30 Rock
  • Succession (TV series), an HBO TV series
  • Simultaneity succession, in music, a chord or harmonic progression, or more generally, the simultaneous playing of the pitches in each group within m a series of different groups of pitches
gollark: I mostly learned to program by doing random projects, reading various random tutorials for things, having to debug weirdly broken stuff, reading some people's code, sort of thing.
gollark: Besides, it's easy to navigate them just by scrolling right/left and having them be divided into multiple windows.
gollark: Also, I get to dazzle people with my tab count.
gollark: Unused tabs don't occupy much RAM, and I enabled the setting to keep tabs when I open and close it, so it works nicely.
gollark: Well, because I inconsistently jump around between various things, and use tabs as markers of "look at this at some point".

See also
  • All pages with titles beginning with Succession
  • All pages with titles containing Succession
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