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series
[ seer-eez ]
noun
- 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.
- a 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.
- 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 + ⅛ + … ½ n.
- Rhetoric. a succession of coordinate sentence elements.
- Geology. 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.
- Electricity. an end-to-end arrangement of the components, as resistors, in a circuit so that the same current flows through each component. Compare parallel ( def 14 ).
- Chemistry. a group of related chemical elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number:
the lanthanide series.
adjective
- Electricity. consisting of or having component parts connected in series:
a series circuit; a series generator.
series
/ ˈsɪəriːz; -rɪz /
noun
- 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
- maths the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of numbers or quantities See also geometric series
- electronics
- 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 ) Compare parallel
a series circuit
- rhetoric a succession of coordinate elements in a sentence
- geology a stratigraphical unit that is a subdivision of a system and represents the rocks formed during an epoch
series
/ sîr′ēz /
- The sum of a sequence of terms, for example 2 + 2 2 + 2 3 + 2 4 + 2 5 + …
- A group of rock formations closely related in time of origen and distinct as a group from other formations.
Other Words From
- multi·series noun plural multiseries
- sub·series noun plural subseries
- super·series noun plural superseries
Word History and Origins
Origin of series1
Word History and Origins
Origin of series1
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Example Sentences
It was where drifting got its start in the U.S., the wide, banked asphalt track perfectly suited for what has become one of the fastest-growing racing series in the country.
The Boxing Day Test was the opening match of the series and it was going to be highly competitive.
The three stars of “Fallout” flew in from different parts of the globe to talk with The Envelope in May, comparing notes about the challenging weather during production of the Amazon Prime Video series.
They are series of waves that reach shore almost like a turbulent wall of water or a fast-rising flood.
Cross has been included in the ODI and Test squads for the series.
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