Definition of "subsequent"

subsequent

/ˈsʌbsɪkwənt/

adjective
not comparable
1. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.
  Quotations
  In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.
  2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian‎
2. Following in order of place; succeeding.
3. (geology, of a stream or faultline) Following a line in the earth that is more easily eroded.
  Quotations
  The peculiar position of the subsequent Derwent, close to the sea, suggests some glacial interference with normal adjustments, and calls for special explanation.
  1895, William Morris Davis, “The Development of Certain English Rivers”, in The Geographical Journal, page 131
noun
plural subsequents
1. (geology) A subsequent stream or faultline.
  Quotations
  When the Middle Wye was turned into the Severn system it still continued the northward subsequent, which of course may have been initiated as a tributary when the Middle Wye belonged to the Thames system.
  1899, Sydney Savory Buckman, “The Development of Rivers”, in Natural Science, page 285