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1. (n.) series
a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
2. series
a number of games, contests, or sporting events, with the same participants, considered as a unit.
3. series
a set, as of coins or postage stamps.
4. series
a set of successive volumes or of issues of a periodical published in like form with similarity of subject or purpose.
5. series
Radio and Television.
6. series
a daily or weekly program with a set format, a regular cast of characters, and sometimes a continuing story, as a situation comedy or a soap opera.
7. series
two or more programs related by theme, format, or the like:
a series on African wildlife.
8. series
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9. series
a succession of coordinate sentence elements.
10. series
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.
11. series
an arrangement of an electrical circuit in which the components are connected end-to-end, so that the same current flows through each component.
12. series
a group of related chemical elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number.
Etymology: (1605–15; < L seriēs; akin to serere to intertwine)
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1. (noun) series
similar things placed in order or happening one after another
"they were investigating a series of bank robberies"
2. (noun) serial, series
a serialized set of programs
"a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series"
3. (noun) series, serial, serial publication
a periodical that appears at scheduled times
4. (noun) series
(sports) several contests played successively by the same teams
"the visiting team swept the series"
5. (noun) series
(electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other
"the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors"
6. (noun) series
a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection
"the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies"
7. (noun) series
(mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions
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1. series
a set of TV or radio shows with characters and a story that connect them
a comedy series
2. series
in sports, a set of games played between the same two teams
a three-game series against Toronto
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Series
a number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events
2. (noun) Series
any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups
3. (noun) Series
an indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series
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The Standard Electrical Dictionary |
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1. Series
(a) Arranged in succession as opposed to parallel. Thus if a set of battery jars are arranged with the zinc of one connected to the carbon of the next one for the entire number, it is said to be arranged in series. When incandescent lamps are arranged in succession so that the current goes through one after the other they are arranged in series.
The opposite of parallel, q. v., or multiple arc, q. v.; it may be used as a noun or as an adjective.
(b) See Electro-Chemical Series;
(c) Thermo-Electric Series
(d) Electrostatic Series;
(e) Electro-motive Series.
Synonym--Cascade Connection (but little used.)
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Sense: a number of usually similar things done, produced etc one after another
a series of brilliant scientific discoveries; Are you watching the television series on Britain's castles?; a series of school textbooks.
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 Afrikaans: reeks |
 Arabic: سِلْسِلَه |
 Bulgarian: серия |
 Brazilian: série |
 Czech: řada, série |
 German: die Serien (pl.) |
 Danish: række; -række; serie; -se |
 Greek: σειρά, διαδοχή παρόμοιων |
 Spanish: serie |
 Estonian: sari |
 Farsi: مجموعه |
 Finnish: sarja |
 French: série |
 Hebrew: סִדרָה |
 Hindi: तांता, अनुक्रम |
 Croatian: serija, niz |
 Hungarian: sorozat |
 Indonesian: seri |
 Icelandic: röð, sería, syrpa |
 Italian: serie |
 Japanese: ひと続き |
 Korean: 시리즈 |
 Lithuanian: serija, serialas |
 Latvian: sērija; seriāls |
 Malay: siri |
 Dutch: serie |
 Norwegian: rekke, serie, føljetong |
 Polish: seria, serial |
 Persian: مجموعه |
 Pashto: (يو) لړ، (يو) شمېر، سلسله |
 Portuguese: série |
 Romanian: serie |
 Russian: серия |
 Slovak: rad, séria, edícia |
 Slovenian: zaporedje; vrsta; nanizan |
 Serbian: serija |
 Swedish: serie |
 Thai: อนุกรม; ลำดับ; ชุด |
 Turkish: dizi |
 Taiwanese: 連續，系列 |
 Ukrainian: серія; цикл |
 Urdu: سلسلہ |
 Vietnamese: loạt, dãy, chuỗi, đợt |
 Chinese: 连续，系列 |
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