单词 | series |
释义 | series (once / 67 pages) n The World Series consists of a series of seven games between the champions of the National and American Baseball Leagues. A series is a group of similar things happening one after the other. Your favorite TV drama that comes on week after week is a series. Each episode is one in a series of many. If you make one mistake after another as you try to make dinner, you could say that the meal arrived on the table despite a series of culinary mishaps. If you have several conversations with your parents about how late you can stay out, you might say your curfew was determined by a series of discussions. WORD FAMILYseries: serieses USAGE EXAMPLESThat series sets you up for life, although you should continue to get annual flu shots. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) And, hey, maybe the kid is unusually good at navigating the series of tubes. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The nation’s electrical grid is not a physical entity, but rather a series of networks that generate, transmit and distribute electricity. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1n similar things placed in order or happening one after another they were investigating a series of bank robberies Hypo|Hyper Stations, Stations of the Cross (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary chain, concatenationa series of things depending on each other as if linked together cordona series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing course, linea connected series of events or actions or developments cyclea series of poems or songs on the same theme electrochemical series, electromotive force series, electromotive seriesa serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions; the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series hierarchya series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system nexusa connected series or group patterned advance, progressiona series with a definite pattern of advance blizzard, rasha series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences sequenceserial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern string, traina sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding successiona group of people or things arranged or following in order wave traina succession of waves spaced at regular intervals helium groupthe series of inert gases actinide series(chemistry) a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium lanthanide seriesthe rare-earth elements with atomic numbers 57 through 71; having properties similar to lanthanum cistron, factor, gene(genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity stringa linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases) combinationa sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock combinationa coordinated sequence of chess moves Fibonacci sequencea sequence of numbers in which each number equals the sum of the two preceding numbers catenaa chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma) daisy chain(figurative) a series of associated things or people or experiences celestial hierarchythe collective body of angels data hierarchyan arrangement of data consisting of sets and subsets such that every subset of a set is of lower rank than the set taxonomya classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc cascadea succession of stages or operations or processes or units paradean extended (often showy) succession of persons or things run, streakan unbroken series of events arithmetic progression(mathematics) a progression in which a constant is added to each term in order to obtain the next term geometric progression(mathematics) a progression in which each term is multiplied by a constant in order to obtain the next term harmonic progression(mathematics) a progression of terms whose reciprocals form an arithmetic progression current, flow, streamdominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas codona specific sequence of three adjacent nucleotides on a strand of DNA or RNA that specifies the genetic code information for synthesizing a particular amino acid order, ordering, ordination logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements 2n a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies Hyper group, grouping any number of entities (members) considered as a unit 3n (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions Hypo|Hyper power series the sum of terms containing successively higher integral powers of a variable convergence, convergencythe approach of an infinite series to a finite limit divergence, divergencyan infinite series that has no limit geometric seriesa geometric progression written as a sum Fourier seriesthe sum of a series of trigonometric expressions; used in the analysis of periodic functions exponential seriesa series derived from the expansion of an exponential expression multinomial, polynomial a mathematical function that is the sum of a number of terms 4n a periodical that appears at scheduled times Syn|Hypo|Hyper serial, serial publication semiweekly a periodical that is published twice each week (or 104 issues per year) weeklya periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year) semimonthlya periodical that is published twice each month (or 24 issues per year) monthlya periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year) quarterlya periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year) bimonthlya periodical that is published twice a month or every two months (either 24 or 6 issues per year) biweeklya periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year) periodical a publication that appears at fixed intervals 5n a serialized set of programs a comedy series the Masterworks concert series Syn|Hypo|Hyper serial soap opera a serialized program usually dealing with sentimentalized family matters that is broadcast on radio or television (frequently sponsored by a company advertising soap products) tetralogya series of four related works (plays or operas or novels) broadcast, program, programme a radio or television show 6n (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams the visiting team swept the series Hypo|Hyper home stand a series of successive games played at a team's home field or court World Seriesseries that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship competition, contest an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants 7n (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors Hyper connectedness, connection, connexion a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) |
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