Series (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural se·ries.
  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.
    • 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.
  6. Mathematics.
    • a sequence of terms combined by addition, as 1 + ½ + ¼ + ⅛ + … ½ n.
    • infinite series.
  7. a succession of coordinate sentence elements.
  8. 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. an end-to-end arrangement of the components, as resistors, in a circuit so that the same current flows through each component.
  10. a group of related chemical elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number: the lanthanide series.
adjective
  1. consisting of or having component parts connected in series: a series circuit; a series generator.
noun plural -ries
  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. the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of numbers or quantities
  6. 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)
  7. a succession of coordinate elements in a sentence
  8. a stratigraphical unit that is a subdivision of a system and represents the rocks formed during an epoch
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