- anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- a publication in any medium issued in successive parts bearing numerical or chronological designation and intended to be continued indefinitely.
- 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).
- of, relating to, or composed in serial technique.
- a novel, play, etc, presented in separate instalments at regular intervals
- a publication, usually regularly issued and consecutively numbered
- of, relating to, or resembling a series
- published or presented as a serial
- of or relating to such publication or presentation
- of or operating on items of information, instructions, etc, in the order in which they occur
- of, relating to, or using the techniques of serialism
- (of a relation) connected, transitive, and asymmetric, thereby imposing an order on all the members of the domain, as less than on the natural numbers
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