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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024se•ries /ˈsɪriz/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. se•ries. - a number of related things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in sequence:a series of murders.
- a number of games, contests, etc., with the same teams or players:a championship series.
- Show Business[Radio and Television.]
- a daily or weekly program with a fixed setting, a regular cast of characters, and a continuing story.
- two or more programs related by theme or format:a series on African wildlife.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024se•ries (sēr′ēz),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ries, adj. n. - a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession;
sequence. - 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.
- Stamps, Currencya set, as of coins or stamps.
- a set of successive volumes or issues of a periodical published in like form with similarity of subject or purpose.
- Radio and Television, Show Business
- a daily or weekly program with the same cast and format and a continuing story, as a soap opera, situation comedy, or drama.
- a number of related programs having the same theme, cast, or format:a series of four programs on African wildlife.
- Mathematics
- a sequence of terms combined by addition, as 1 + ½ + ¼ + 1⁄8 +...½n.
- See infinite series.
- Rhetorica succession of coordinate sentence elements.
- Geologya 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.
- Electricityan end-to-end arrangement of the components, as resistors, in a circuit so that the same current flows through each component. Cf. parallel (def. 13).
- Chemistrya group of related chemical elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number:the lanthanide series.
adj. - Electricityconsisting of or having component parts connected in series:a series circuit; a series generator.
- Latin seriēs; akin to serere to connect
- 1605–15
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged 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.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: series /ˈsɪəriːz -rɪz/ n ( pl -ries)- a group or connected succession of similar or related things, usually arranged in order
- a set of radio or television programmes having the same characters and setting but different stories
- a set of books having the same format, related content, etc, published by one firm
- a set of stamps, coins, etc, issued at a particular time
- the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of numbers or quantities
- 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)
- (as modifier): a series circuit
Compare parallel - a stratigraphical unit that is a subdivision of a system and represents the rocks formed during an epoch
Etymology: 17th Century: from Latin: a row, from serere to link |