Dictionary Definition
series
Noun
1 similar things placed in order or happening one
after another; "they were investigating a series of bank
robberies"
2 a serialized set of programs; "a comedy
series"; "the Masterworks concert series" [syn: serial]
3 a periodical that appears at scheduled times
[syn: serial, serial
publication]
4 (sports) several contests played successively
by the same teams; "the visiting team swept the series"
5 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"
6 (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite
sequence of expressions
7 (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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- ˈsɪə.riːz
Etymology
From series.Noun
- A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
- A television or radio program which consists of
several episodes that
are broadcast in
regular intervals
- Friends was one of the most successful television series in recent years.
- The sum of the terms of a sequence.
- A group of matches between two sides; the aim being to win more matches than the opposition
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
a number of things that follow on one after the
other
- Czech: řada
- Croatian: red
- Dutch: reeks, serie
- Finnish: sarja
- French: suite, série
- German: Serie
- Hungarian: sor
- Italian: serie
- Spanish: serie
- Swedish: följd, svit, serie
- Hebrew: סדרה
television or radio program
- Croatian: serija
- Czech seriál
- Dutch: reeks, serie
- Finnish: sarja
- French: série
- German: Serie
- Hebrew: סדרה
- Hungarian: sorozat
- Italian: serie
- Romanian: serie
- Spanish: serie
- Swedish: serie, följetong i especially radio
in analysis: sum of the terms of a sequence
- Croatian: red
- Czech: řada
- Danish: række
- Dutch: reeks
- Finnish: sarja
- French: série
- German: Reihe
- Hungarian: sor
- Italian: serie
- Spanish: serie
- Swedish: serie, oändlig summa, summa
- Hebrew: סדרה
Adjective
- Connected one after the other in a circuit.
- You have to connect the lights in series for them to work properly.
Antonyms
- parallel (electronics)
Dutch
Noun
series p- Plural of serie
Swedish
Noun
- indefinite genitive singular of serie
Extensive Definition
Series may refer to:
Mathematics and science
- Series (botany), a taxonomic rank between genus and species
- Series (mathematics), the sum of a sequence of terms
- Series circuits, a kind of electrical network
- Seriation (archaeology), a method of dating objects
- Seriation (semiotics), a concept in interpreting phenomena
- series (geology), a stratigraphic unit deposited during a certain interval of geologic time
Gender studies
- Seriality (Gender studies), a concept that redefines the category of woman
Media and entertainment
- Television program, used as a synonym for series in countries including the United States
- Film series, a collection of related films in succession
- Book series, a sequence of books, usually sharing the same author or marketed as a group
- Video game series, a sequence of video games that are part of the same franchise
- Serialism, a system of composing music
Other uses
- Series (United States currency), referring to the year that a bill's design was adopted
- A sequence of competitive sports events, sometimes to decide a championship; see also World Series (disambiguation)
series in Arabic: سلسلة
series in Danish: Serie
series in German: Serie
series in Spanish: Serie
series in French: Série
series in Hungarian: Sorozat
series in Dutch: Serie
series in Japanese: シリーズ
series in Portuguese: Série
series in Romanian: Serie
series in Albanian: Seria (kthjellim)
series in Simple English: Series
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Indian file, alternation, array, arsis, articulation, back number,
bank, battery, beat, biotype, block, bout, branch, buzz, category, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chasing, circle, circuit, class, collection, column, coming after, concatenation, connection, consecution, consecutiveness,
continuance,
continuation,
continuity, continuum, copy, course, cycle, descent, diastole, dogging, downbeat, drone, edition, endless belt, endless
round, extension,
family, file, filiation, following, gamut, genotype, genus, geometrical progression,
gradation, group, heeling, hounding, hum, impression, issue, kingdom, kit, library, library edition,
line, lineage, logical sequence,
monotone, nexus, number, order, order of succession,
outfit, pack, pendulum, periodicity, phylum, plenum, posteriority, postposition, powder train,
printing, procession, progression, prolongation, pulse, pursual, pursuance, pursuit, queue, range, rank, recurrence, reticulation, revolution, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, school edition, section, sequel, sequence, set, shadowing, single file,
species, spectrum, spell, string, subclass, subfamily, subgenus, subjunction, subkingdom, suborder, subspecies, subtribe, succession, successiveness, suffixation, suit, suite, superclass, superfamily, superorder, superspecies, swath, systole, tailing, thesis, thread, tier, trade book, trade edition,
trailing, train, tribe, turn, upbeat, variety, volume, wheel, windrow