• Finnish: sarja-

Related terms

• serial comma
• serial killer
• serial music
• serialize

Noun

1. A work, as a work of fiction, published in installments, often numbered and without a specified end.

Translations

See also

• twelve tone technique

References

• DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 6.

Serial, anything in the form of a series, can refer to several things:

Art and literature

• Serial, a format by which a story is told in installments
  • Serial (film), films released in chapters for viewing in cinemas, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s
  • Serial (radio and television), serialised fiction in the television and radio media
    • Miniseries, a production that tells a story in a limited number of episodes
  • Serial (literature), serialised fiction in print
  • Webserial, serialised written fiction on the Internet
• Serialism, in music
• The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, a novel by Cyra McFadden
• Serial (1980 film), on McFadden's novel, starring Martin Mull and Tuesday Weld

Technology

• Serial cable, a type of computer cable
• Serial communications, computer communication technologies that use a single stream of data
• Serial number, a unique number identifying a specific example of a particular product
• Serial port, a personal computer interface for transferring data between low-power devices
• Serial Peripheral Interface Bus, a simple data link standard designed by Motorola

Mathematics

• Serial relation, a relation such that every element has a successor

People

• Serial killers, people who, for psychological reasons, murder victims who are generally unknown to them beforehand in at least three different situations

See also

• Serialization (literature)
• Cereal

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