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series

[ seer-eez ]

noun

plural series.
  1. a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
  2. 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.

  3. a set, as of coins or stamps.
  4. a set of successive volumes or issues of a periodical published in like form with similarity of subject or purpose.
  5. Radio and Television.
    1. a daily or weekly program with the same cast and format and a continuing story, as a soap opera, situation comedy, or drama.
    2. a number of related programs having the same theme, cast, or format:

      a series of four programs on African wildlife.

  6. Mathematics.
    1. a sequence of terms combined by addition, as 1 + ½ + ¼ + ⅛ + … ½ n.
  7. Rhetoric. a succession of coordinate sentence elements.
  8. 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.
  9. 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 14 ).
  10. Chemistry. a group of related chemical elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number:

    the lanthanide series.



adjective

  1. Electricity. consisting of or having component parts connected in series:

    a series circuit; a series generator.

series

/ ˈsɪəriËz; -rɪz /

noun

  1. a group or connected succession of similar or related things, usually arranged in order
  2. a set of radio or television programmes having the same characters and setting but different stories
  3. a set of books having the same format, related content, etc, published by one firm
  4. a set of stamps, coins, etc, issued at a particular time
  5. maths the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of numbers or quantities See also geometric series
  6. electronics
    1. 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 )
    2. ( as modifier ) Compare parallel

      a series circuit

  7. rhetoric a succession of coordinate elements in a sentence
  8. geology a stratigraphical unit that is a subdivision of a system and represents the rocks formed during an epoch
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

series

/ ²õî°ù′ŧ³ú /

  1. The sum of a sequence of terms, for example 2 + 2 2 + 2 3 + 2 4 + 2 5 + …
  2. A group of rock formations closely related in time of origin and distinct as a group from other formations.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¾³Ü±ôt¾±Â·²õ±ðr¾±±ð²õ noun plural multiseries
  • ²õ³Ü²ú·²õ±ð۾±±ð²õ noun plural subseries
  • ²õ³Üp±ð°ù·²õ±ðr¾±±ð²õ noun plural superseries
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of series1

First recorded in 1605–15; from Latin ²õ±ð°ù¾±Å§²õ; akin to serere “to connectâ€
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of series1

C17: from Latin: a row, from serere to link
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Synonym Study

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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Amazon MGM Studios in February inked a deal with the longtime producers of the James Bond film franchise — Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother Michael G. Wilson — to control the beloved superspy series.

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When the Dodgers announced this visit last month — they will go to the White House Monday before their series opener against the Washington Nationals — Betts said he was undecided about whether he would participate.

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And the series makes good on each and every one of those promises throughout its first season.

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Speaking on the US chat show The Tonight Show, the 34-year-old confirmed the record would be titled Play, kicking off a new series of records that will be called Pause, Rewind, Fast-Forward and Stop.

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After playing three-straight games against the Detroit Tigers last week, he said it was “getting a little stiff†near the end of the series.

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