单词 | series |
释义 | series/ˈsɪəriːz /noun (plural same) 1A number of events, objects, or people of a similar or related kind coming one after another: the explosion was the latest in a series of accidents he gave a series of lectures on modern art...
Synonyms sequence, succession, string, chain, concatenation, train, run, chapter, round, progression, procession; spate, wave, stream, rash, outbreak; set, course, cycle; row, line, bank, battery, arrangement, order 1.1A set of books, periodicals, or other documents published in a common format or under a common title: the first four books in the Toybox Science series a series of travel books...
1.2A set of games played between two teams: the Test series against Australia...
1.3A set of stamps, banknotes, or coins issued at a particular time: a series of five stamps issued today to mark the 14th World Orchid Conference...
2A set or sequence of related television or radio programmes: a new drama series...
Synonyms set of programmes, programme, production, serial; situation comedy, soap opera informal sitcom, soap 3 Music another term for tone row.The odd notes in the series represent a rising chromatic scale; the evens, a falling one. 4 [as modifier] Denoting electrical circuits or components arranged so that the current passes through each successively: a series circuit the series connection of the two coils...
5 Geology (In chronostratigraphy) a range of strata corresponding to an epoch in time, being a subdivision of a system and itself subdivided into stages: the Pliocene series...
6 Chemistry A set of elements with common properties or of compounds related in composition or structure: the metals of the lanthanide series...
7 Mathematics A set of quantities constituting a progression or having the several values determined by a common relation.The main research topics which Genocchi worked on were number theory, series and the integral calculus....
8 Phonetics A group of speech sounds having at least one phonetic feature in common but distinguished in other respects: the voiced plosive series [b], [d], [g] Phrasesin series OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin, literally 'row, chain', from serere 'join, connect'.
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