| series | | |
| n. (group) | 1. series | similar things placed in order or happening one after another.; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies" |
| ~ stations, stations of the cross | (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary. |
| ~ chain, concatenation | a series of things depending on each other as if linked together.; "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances" |
| ~ cordon | a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing. |
| ~ course, line | a connected series of events or actions or developments.; "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available" |
| ~ cycle | a series of poems or songs on the same theme.; "Schubert's song cycles" |
| ~ electrochemical series, electromotive force series, electromotive series | a serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions; the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series. |
| ~ hierarchy | a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system.; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values" |
| ~ ordering, ordination, order | logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements.; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" |
| ~ nexus | a connected series or group. |
| ~ patterned advance, progression | a series with a definite pattern of advance. |
| ~ blizzard, rash | a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences.; "a rash of bank robberies"; "a blizzard of lawsuits" |
| ~ sequence | serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern.; "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA" |
| ~ train, string | a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding.; "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought" |
| ~ succession | a group of people or things arranged or following in order.; "a succession of stalls offering soft drinks"; "a succession of failures" |
| ~ wave train | a succession of waves spaced at regular intervals. |
| ~ helium group | the series of inert gases. |
| ~ actinide series | (chemistry) a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium. |
| ~ lanthanide series | the rare-earth elements with atomic numbers 57 through 71; having properties similar to lanthanum. |
| n. (communication) | 2. serial, series | a serialized set of programs.; "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series" |
| ~ broadcast, program, programme | a radio or television show.; "did you see his program last night?" |
| ~ instalment, installment, episode | a part of a broadcast serial. |
| ~ soap opera | a serialized program usually dealing with sentimentalized family matters that is broadcast on radio or television (frequently sponsored by a company advertising soap products). |
| ~ tetralogy | a series of four related works (plays or operas or novels). |
| n. (communication) | 3. serial, serial publication, series | a periodical that appears at scheduled times. |
| ~ instalment, installment | a part of a published serial. |
| ~ periodical | a publication that appears at fixed intervals. |
| ~ semiweekly | a periodical that is published twice each week (or 104 issues per year). |
| ~ weekly | a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year). |
| ~ semimonthly | a periodical that is published twice each month (or 24 issues per year). |
| ~ monthly | a periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year). |
| ~ quarterly | a periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year). |
| ~ bimonthly | a periodical that is published twice a month or every two months (either 24 or 6 issues per year). |
| ~ biweekly | a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year). |
| ~ issue, number | one of a series published periodically.; "she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room" |
| n. (event) | 4. series | (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams.; "the visiting team swept the series" |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| ~ contest, competition | an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants. |
| ~ home stand | a series of successive games played at a team's home field or court. |
| ~ world series | series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship.; "we watched the World Series on TV" |
| n. (linkdef) | 5. series | (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" |
| ~ electronics | the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices. |
| ~ connection, connectedness, connexion | a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it).; "there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare" |
| n. (group) | 6. series | 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" |
| ~ group, grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. |
| n. (cognition) | 7. series | (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions. |
| ~ multinomial, polynomial | a mathematical function that is the sum of a number of terms. |
| ~ power series | the sum of terms containing successively higher integral powers of a variable. |
| ~ convergency, convergence | the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit. |
| ~ divergency, divergence | an infinite series that has no limit. |
| ~ geometric series | a geometric progression written as a sum. |
| ~ fourier series | the sum of a series of trigonometric expressions; used in the analysis of periodic functions. |
| ~ math, mathematics, maths | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement. |
| ~ exponential series | a series derived from the expansion of an exponential expression. |
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