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.
Radioand 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.
infinite series.
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. 13).
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.
Origin of series
First recorded in 1605–15; from Latin seriēs; akin to serere “to connect”
synonym study for series
1. 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.
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The position of those who remained was regulated in a series of decrees, adverse to the system, but favourable to the inmate.
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The principal work is his series of Lectures in the Royal Academy, twelve in number, commenced in 1801.
The two armature coils are in series with the field-coils and the same disposition of the shunt or short-circuit D is used.
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British Dictionary definitions for series
series
/ (ˈsɪəriːz, -rɪz) /
nounplural-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
mathsthe sum of a finite or infinite sequence of numbers or quantitiesSee 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)a series circuit Compare parallel (def. 10)
rhetorica succession of coordinate elements in a sentence
geologya stratigraphical unit that is a subdivision of a system and represents the rocks formed during an epoch