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series
[ seer-eez ]
noun
- a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
- a number of games, contests, or sporting events, with the same participants, considered as a unit:
The two baseball clubs played a five-game series.
- a set, as of coins or stamps.
- a set of successive volumes or issues of a periodical published in like form with similarity of subject or purpose.
- Radio and Television.
- a daily or weekly program with the same cast and format and a continuing story, as a soap opera, situation comedy, or drama.
- a number of related programs having the same theme, cast, or format:
a series of four programs on African wildlife.
- Mathematics.
- a sequence of terms combined by addition, as 1 + ½ + ¼ + ⅛ + … ½ n.
- Rhetoric. a succession of coordinate sentence elements.
- Geology. a division of stratified rocks that is of next higher rank to a stage and next lower rank to a system, comprising deposits formed during part of a geological epoch.
- Electricity. an end-to-end arrangement of the components, as resistors, in a circuit so that the same current flows through each component. Compare parallel ( def 14 ).
- Chemistry. a group of related chemical elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number:
the lanthanide series.
adjective
- Electricity. consisting of or having component parts connected in series:
a series circuit; a series generator.
series
/ ˈsɪəriːz; -rɪz /
noun
- a group or connected succession of similar or related things, usually arranged in order
- a set of radio or television programmes having the same characters and setting but different stories
- a set of books having the same format, related content, etc, published by one firm
- a set of stamps, coins, etc, issued at a particular time
- maths the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of numbers or quantities See also geometric series
- electronics
- a configuration of two or more components connected in a circuit so that the same current flows in turn through each of them (esp in the phrase in series )
- ( as modifier ) Compare parallel
a series circuit
- rhetoric a succession of coordinate elements in a sentence
- geology a stratigraphical unit that is a subdivision of a system and represents the rocks formed during an epoch
series
/ î′ŧ /
- The sum of a sequence of terms, for example 2 + 2 2 + 2 3 + 2 4 + 2 5 + …
- A group of rock formations closely related in time of origin and distinct as a group from other formations.
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܱt·r noun plural multiseries
- ܲ·۾ noun plural subseries
- p·r noun plural superseries
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of series1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of series1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
While still in service, j-hope released “Hope on the Street: Vol. 1,” a soundtrack to his documentary series of the same name in which he explored street dance in different cities across the world.
The landmark also featured in the opening scene of the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small in the 1980s and is on the Coast to Coast path route.
Why, for the first week of April, this series had a litmus-test kind of feel.
The latest installment of “The White Lotus” comes to an end on Sunday and everyone is speculating about how the series will wrap up its loose ends, who will die and how.
In his new BBC series, the ex-professional footballer speaks to young men involved in criminality, from favelas in Brazil to gangs in Sweden.
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