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Definitions for Series

[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] Rhetoric . a succession of coordinate sentence elements.
[8] 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.
[9] 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 13) .
[10] Chemistry . a group of related chemical elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number: the lanthanide series.
[11] Electricity . consisting of or having component parts connected in series: a series circuit; a series generator.
[12] a group or connected succession of similar or related things, usually arranged in order
[13] a set of radio or television programmes having the same characters and setting but different stories
[14] a set of books having the same format, related content, etc, published by one firm
[15] a set of stamps, coins, etc, issued at a particular time
[16] maths the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of numbers or quantities See also geometric series
[17] 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 ) a series circuit Compare parallel (def. 10)
[18] rhetoric a succession of coordinate elements in a sentence
[19] geology a stratigraphical unit that is a subdivision of a system and represents the rocks formed during an epoch

Words related to Series

streak, set, run, string, sequence, list, course, array, classification, alternation, procession, file, row, category, scale, group, chain, gradation, arrangement, suit

Words nearby Series

sericin, sericite, serictery, sericulture, seriema, series, series circuit, series comma, series resonance, series-wound, serif

Origin of Series

1605–15; < Latin seriēs; akin to serere to connect

Other words from Series

mul·ti·se·ries , noun, plural mul·ti·se·ries.
sub·se·ries , noun, plural sub·se·ries.
su·per·se·ries , noun, plural su·per·se·ries.

Word origin for Series

C17: from Latin: a row, from serere to link

Synonyms for Series

array, course, list, run, sequence, set, streak, string, alternation, arrangement, category, chain, classification, column, continuity, file, gradation, group, line, procession, progression, range, row, scale, sequel, skein, suit, suite, tier, train, consecution