sequel

1. (dated) The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.Examples: "Now here Chriſtian was worſe put to it then in his fight with Apollyon, as by the ſequel you ſhall ſee."; "In its sixty-year history here, some 4,170 engines of the 4-6-0 type have been constructed. This is the vast sequel of that bold experimental step of the Highland Railway in 1894."dated

2. (narratology) A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.

3. (mathematics) The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".Examples: "In the sequel we restrict ourselves to “nice” cases without going into details about the nicety conditions which have to be fulfilled (see, e.g., Freudenthal [1])."

4. (Scotland, historical) Thirlage.Scotlandhistorical

5. (obsolete) A person's descendants.obsolete