a work appearing, e.g. in a magazine or on television, in parts, usu at regular intervals

a publication issued as one of a consecutively numbered continuing series

of, in, or constituting a series, rank, or row

serial order

appearing in successive instalments

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing — Quentin Crisp

of or being music based on a series of notes in an arbitrary but fixed order without regard for traditional tonality

in computing, transferring data one bit at a time