anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
Library Science. a publication in any medium issued in successive parts bearing numerical or chronological designation and intended to be continued indefinitely.
adjective
published in installments or successive parts: a serial story.
pertaining to such publication.
pertaining to, arranged in, or consisting of a series.
occurring in a series rather than simultaneously: serial marriage; serial murders.
effecting or producing a series of similar actions: The police think a serial killer is responsible for five homicides in this city last month.
Computers.
of or relating to the apparent or actual performance of data-processing operations one at a time (distinguished from parallel).
of or relating to the transmission or processing of each part of a whole in sequence, as each bit of a byte or each byte of a computer word (distinguished from parallel).
Music. of, relating to, or composed in serial technique.
Origin of serial
From the New Latin word seriālis, dating back to 1835–45. See series, -al1
“Very few people have the capacity to do serial sampling, but in Brazil it’s mandatory to save samples, so we could,” says Sabino.
A city in Brazil where covid-19 ran amok may be a ‘sentinel’ for the rest of the world|Amy Nordrum|September 22, 2020|MIT Technology Review
In 2018, we saw the takedown of countless serial sexual harassers from positions of power because a number of women were fed up enough to take the risk and break their NDAs.
NDAs bear blame for some of the worst corporate cover-ups. How that should change|jakemeth|September 18, 2020|Fortune
QuantumScape was founded in 2010 by CEO Jagdeep Singh, a serial entrepreneur who previously founded and sold companies including Lightera Networks, bought by Ciena in 1999 for $1 billion.
Bill Gates–backed EV battery startup to go public using Wall Street’s latest buzzy trick|Aaron Pressman|September 3, 2020|Fortune
The bottles carrying the swab samples will contain no personal data, either, besides a serial number identifying the patient.
Hong Kong’s new mass COVID testing scheme is free and voluntary—and some citizens are suspicious|eamonbarrett|August 26, 2020|Fortune
A self-styled hacker and coder, he worked for Microsoft in the early 1990s before becoming a serial entrepreneur.
Can an A.I. hedge fund beat the market?|Jeremy Kahn|August 25, 2020|Fortune
But when a serial sex predator is playing fanboy, the gag reflex kicks in.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Hell, he says Koenig never referred to it as Serial or even as a podcast.
The Deal With Serial’s Jay? He’s Pissed Off, Mucks Up Our Timeline|Emily Shire|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In all fairness to Jay, he told The Intercept that he never expected to be a major figure in Serial.
The Deal With Serial’s Jay? He’s Pissed Off, Mucks Up Our Timeline|Emily Shire|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Interviews in Serial (including ones from Adnan) do acknowledge that Jay was known as a resident bad boy at Woodlawn High School.
The Deal With Serial’s Jay? He’s Pissed Off, Mucks Up Our Timeline|Emily Shire|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We began a journey with Koenig in the first episode of Serial.
Adnan Killed Her! No, Jay Did It! Serial’s Uncertain, True-to-Reality End|Emily Shire|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With the opening installment of the first serial the Free Press published a photograph of the author over a stickful of biography.
The Fiction Factory|John Milton Edwards
There are some amusing things connected with the publication in serial form of these episodes.
A Little Book for Christmas|Cyrus Townsend Brady
I notice that there are numbers on each of these papers with 10 serial numbers each.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
When a relation is serial its relation-number is often called its serial type.
It can be told in a few words although the narrative of its exploitations remains a serial without end.
An African Adventure|Isaac F. Marcosson
British Dictionary definitions for serial
serial
/ (ˈsɪərɪəl) /
noun
a novel, play, etc, presented in separate instalments at regular intervals
a publication, usually regularly issued and consecutively numbered
adjective
of, relating to, or resembling a series
published or presented as a serial
of or relating to such publication or presentation
computingof or operating on items of information, instructions, etc, in the order in which they occurCompare parallel (def. 5)
of, relating to, or using the techniques of serialism
logicmaths(of a relation) connected, transitive, and asymmetric, thereby imposing an order on all the members of the domain, as less than on the natural numbersSee also ordering
Derived forms of serial
serially, adverb
Word Origin for serial
C19: from New Latin seriālis, from Latin seriēsseries