| 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. |
serial (ˈsɪərɪəl) ![]() | |
| —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 | |