a serial arrangement or sequence; the act of arranging things in series or succession
seriation in American English
(ˌsɪəriˈeiʃən)
noun
the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence
Word origin
[1650–60; ‹ L seri(ēs) series + -ation]This word is first recorded in the period 1650–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: agency, cardholder, oscillation, siphon, syllabus-ation is used to form nouns from stems ending in -ate (separation) and, on this model, to form nouns from stems of other origin (starvation). Other words that use the affix -ation include: capitalization, generalization, neutralization, polymerization, transportation
Examples of 'seriation' in a sentence
seriation
It seems that the seriation of rays can play a valuable role in taxonomic analysis.
Wiesław Włoch, Waldemar Szendera 2014, 'The storeyed and non-storeyed arrangement of rays in the storeyed cambium of Tiliacordata Mill.', Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniaehttps://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/asbp/article/view/1564. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
There are several ways of doing seriation.
Rūta Kačkutė 2012, 'Korespondencinė analizė kaip chronologinis metodas', Archaeologia Lituanahttp://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/archaeologia-lituana/article/view/1191. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Subjects were individually assessed in different sessions for classification and seriation tasks, with no previously established order.
Suelly Cecília Olivan Limongi, Angela Maria de Amorim Carvalho, Tatiana Pires da Silva,Paula Dias Picchi, Rosangela Viana Andrade 2010, 'As noções de classificação e seriação na criança com síndrome de Down The notionsof classification and seriation in children with Down syndrome', Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-80342010000200012. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)