serial
Use Serial in a sentence
i noun
1.
anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
2.
Library Science. a publication in any medium issued in successive parts bearing numerical or chronological designation and intended to be continued indefinitely.
adjective
3.
published in installments or successive parts: a serial story.
4.
pertaining to such publication.
5.
pertaining to, arranged in, or consisting of a series.
6.
occurring in a series rather than simultaneously: serial marriage; serial murders.
7.
effecting or producing a series of similar actions: The police think a serial killer is responsible for five homicides in this city last month.
8.
Computers.
a.
of or pertaining to the apparent or actual performance of data-processing operations one at a time (distinguished from parallel ).
9.
Music. of, pertaining to, or composed in serial technique.
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Serial
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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serial (ˈsɪərɪəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a novel, play, etc, presented in separate instalments at regular intervals |
| 2. | a publication, usually regularly issued and consecutively numbered |
| —adj | |
| 3. | of, relating to, or resembling a series |
| 4. | published or presented as a serial |
| 5. | of or relating to such publication or presentation |
| 6. | computing Compare parallel of or operating on items of information, instructions, etc, in the order in which they occur |
| 7. | of, relating to, or using the techniques of serialism |
| 8. | logic, maths See also ordering (of a relation) connected, transitive, and asymmetric, thereby imposing an order on all the members of the domain, as less than on the natural numbers |
| [C19: from New Latin seriālis, from Latin seriēs | |
| 'serially | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
serial
1840, from series (q.v.), popularized in ref. to Dickens' novels, published one part at a time (as opposed to all at once, in a book). Found to be a useful word and given wide application. The noun is attested from 1846. Serial number first recorded 1935. Serial killer is
first attested 1981 (in relation to John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy), though serial had been used in connection with murders since the early 1960s.
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Example sentences
It's horribly cloying and cynical-and both of its stars are serial offenders.
One of the serial stories was about his five marriages and their consequences.
But my life doesn't overlap much with singles, serial monogamists, or divorcees.
So send a letter with name, rank, and serial number.
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