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series
[ seer-eez ]
noun
- a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
- 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.
- a set, as of coins or stamps.
- a set of successive volumes or issues of a periodical published in like form with similarity of subject or purpose.
- 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.
- Mathematics.
- a sequence of terms combined by addition, as 1 + ½ + ¼ + ⅛ + … ½ n.
- Rhetoric. a succession of coordinate sentence elements.
- 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.
- 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 ).
- Chemistry. a group of related chemical elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number:
the lanthanide series.
adjective
- Electricity. consisting of or having component parts connected in series:
a series circuit; a series generator.
series
/ ˈsɪəriːz; -rɪz /
noun
- a group or connected succession of similar or related things, usually arranged in order
- a set of radio or television programmes having the same characters and setting but different stories
- a set of books having the same format, related content, etc, published by one firm
- a set of stamps, coins, etc, issued at a particular time
- maths the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of numbers or quantities See also geometric series
- 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 ) Compare parallel
a series circuit
- rhetoric a succession of coordinate elements in a sentence
- geology a stratigraphical unit that is a subdivision of a system and represents the rocks formed during an epoch
series
- The sum of a sequence of terms, for example 2 + 2 2 + 2 3 + 2 4 + 2 5 + …
- A group of rock formations closely related in time of origin and distinct as a group from other formations.
Other Word Forms
- ܱt·r noun plural multiseries
- ܲ·۾ noun plural subseries
- p·r noun plural superseries
Word History and Origins
Origin of series1
Word History and Origins
Origin of series1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
She added that she had "great respect for Nagi", but has stood by her recipes in a series of Instagram stories.
"It definitely swung the series. It definitely swung the game," Mosley said.
With Murray cooking the Clippers for a series-high 43 points, they trail the best-of-seven series 3-2 and are on the brink of being eliminated in the first round for the third straight season.
The Oilers, who lead the best-of-seven series 3-2, can end the Kings’ season for a fourth straight season with another victory.
The vibes shouldn’t be good around the team, the Lakers having been badly beaten at the close of quarters and in the fourth quarter throughout the series.
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