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noun
1.
a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
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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.
3.
a set, as of coins or stamps.
4.
a set of successive volumes or issues of a periodical published in like form with similarity of subject or purpose.
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EXPANDRadio and Television.
a.
a daily or weekly program with the same cast and format and a continuing story, as a soap opera, situation comedy, or drama.
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a number of related programs having the same theme, cast, or format: a series of four programs on African wildlife.
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Mathematics.
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a sequence of terms combined by addition, as 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + … 1/2 n.
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Rhetoric. a succession of coordinate sentence elements.
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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.
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COLLAPSEChemistry. a group of related chemical elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number: the lanthanide series.
adjective
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Electricity. consisting of or having component parts connected in series: a series circuit; a series generator.
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Series
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Origin:
1605–15; < Latin seriēs; akin to serere to connect
1605–15; < Latin seriēs; akin to serere to connect
Related forms
mul·ti·se·ries, noun, plural mul·ti·se·ries.
sub·se·ries, noun, plural sub·se·ries.
su·per·se·ries, noun, plural su·per·se·ries.
Synonyms
1. Series, sequence, succession are terms for an orderly following of things one after another. Series is applied to a number of things of the same kind, usually related to each other, arranged or happening in order: a series of baseball games. Sequence stresses the continuity in time, thought, cause and effect, etc.: The scenes came in a definite sequence. Succession implies that one thing is followed by another or others in turn, usually though not necessarily with a relation or connection between them: succession to a throne; a succession of calamities.
1. Series, sequence, succession are terms for an orderly following of things one after another. Series is applied to a number of things of the same kind, usually related to each other, arranged or happening in order: a series of baseball games. Sequence stresses the continuity in time, thought, cause and effect, etc.: The scenes came in a definite sequence. Succession implies that one thing is followed by another or others in turn, usually though not necessarily with a relation or connection between them: succession to a throne; a succession of calamities.
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Example Sentences
- Four irrepressible friends head out to sea in the latest installment in a first-reader series that has no equal.
- Our series of articles on how some of the world's leading financial firms are adapting to the post-crisis world.
- The thin pieces of wood between the series of cuts should break out easily.
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World English Dictionary
| series (ˈsɪəriːz, -rɪz) | |
| —n , pl -ries | |
| 1. | a group or connected succession of similar or related things, usually arranged in order |
| 2. | a set of radio or television programmes having the same characters and setting but different stories |
| 3. | a set of books having the same format, related content, etc, published by one firm |
| 4. | a set of stamps, coins, etc, issued at a particular time |
| 5. | maths See also geometric series the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of numbers or quantities |
| 6. | electronics |
| a. 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) | |
| b. Compare parallel (as modifier): a series circuit | |
| 7. | rhetoric a succession of coordinate elements in a sentence |
| 8. | geology a stratigraphical unit that is a subdivision of a system and represents the rocks formed during an epoch |
| [C17: from Latin: a row, from serere to link] | |
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Word Origin & History
series
1611, "a number or set of things of one kind arranged in a line," from L. series "row, chain, series," from serere "to join, link, bind together, put," from PIE base *ser- "to line up, join" (cf. Skt. sarat- "thread," Gk. eirein "to fasten together in rows," Goth. sarwa (pl.) "armor, arms," O.N. sörve
EXPAND"necklace of stringed pearls," O.Ir. sernaid "he joins together," Welsh ystret "row"). Meaning "set of printed works published consecutively" is from 1711. Meaning "set of radio or television programs with the same characters and themes" is attested from 1949.
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Medical Dictionary
series se·ries (sēr'ēz)
n. pl. series
A number of objects or events arranged or coming one after the other in succession.
A group of objects related by linearly varying successive differences in form or configuration, as in a radioactive decay series.
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