(of things) occurring or appearing in a continuous and rapid flow, like a string of pearls; also used to describe speech or gunfire

a series of beads or pearls strung together

a rhetorical technique where the end of one phrase is used to start the next; also refers to a specific literary style known as 连珠体 lián​zhū​tǐ

the board game Renju, a professional variant of Gomoku where players try to align five pieces in a row