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▪ I. seriate, a. Chiefly Zool. and Bot.|ˈsɪərɪət|
[ad. mod.L. *seriāt-us, f. series.]
Arranged or occurring in one or more series or rows.
1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 139 Tubercles small,..vertically seriate. 1857[see serial A. c]. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 137 Sedum acre..leaves obscurely 6-seriate. 1874T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd xxvi, The remainder was a mere question of time and natural seriate changes.
So ˈseriated a.; hence ˈseriately adv., in series.
1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 266 Disks seriately and reticulately budding. 1872H. C. Wood Fresh-w. Algæ 227 The gelatinous tubes or sheaths in which the cells are seriated are very obvious. 1874Lewes Probl. Life & Mind Ser. i. I. 120 Vitality and Sensibility may be said to rest on seriated Change.
▪ II. seriate, v.|ˈsɪərɪeɪt|
[Back-formation from seriation.]
trans. To arrange (items) in a sequence according to prescribed criteria.
1944Genetics XXIX. 526 We shall refer to these and other genes in the series, requiring testers to distinguish them and to seriate them, as iso-alleles. 1968D. L. Clarke Analytical Archæol. ii. xi. 453 Initially, the matrix technique was devised for seriating assemblages in terms of their proportions of component types. 1972Computers & Humanities VI. 179 The program constructs a classification of objects and seriates the classes by minimizing the distance according to the Brainerd Robinson model of seriation. |