1. serial(n = noun.communication) series - a serialized set of programs; "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series"
is a kind of broadcast, program, programme
has parts: episode, installment, instalment
has particulars: soap opera, tetralogy
Derived forms adjective serial1, adjective serial3
2. serial(n = noun.communication) serial publication, series - a periodical that appears at scheduled times; Array
is a kind of periodical
has parts: installment, instalment
has particulars: semiweekly, weekly, semimonthly, monthly, quarterly, bimonthly, biweekly
Derived forms adjective serial1, adjective serial3
1. serial(s = adj.all) consecutive, sequent, sequential, successive - in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts"
Derived forms noun serial2, noun serial1, noun series1
2. serial(a = adj.pert) Array - pertaining to or composed in serial technique; "serial music"
Derived form noun series1
3. serial(a = adj.pert) Array - pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series; "serial monogamy"; "serial killing"; "a serial killer"; "serial publication"
Derived forms noun serial2, noun serial1, noun series1
4. serial(s = adj.all) in series, nonparallel - of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations; "serial processing"
Derived form noun series5
1. Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication. H. Spencer. [1913 Webster]
2. Of or pertaining to rows. Gray. [1913 Webster]
A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical. [1913 Webster]
serial, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a story, play, or film which is published, broadcast, or shown in regular instalments.
2 a periodical.
--adj.
1 of or in or forming a series.
2 (of a story etc.) in the form of a serial.
3 Mus. using transformations of a fixed series of notes (see SERIES).
4 (of a publication) appearing in successive parts published usu. at regular intervals, periodical.
Idiom:
serial killer a person who murders continuously with no apparent motive. serial number a number showing the position of an item in a series. serial rights the right to publish a story or book as a serial.
Derivative:
seriality n. serially adv.
Etymology:
SERIES + -AL
N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
N continuity, consecution, consecutiveness, succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain, catenation, concatenation, scale, gradation, course, ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent, procession, column, retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array, pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race, ancestry, descent, family, house, line, line of ancestors, strain, rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team, suit, colonnade, continuous, continued, consecutive, progressive, gradual, serial, successive, immediate, unbroken, entire, linear, in a line, in a row, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence), perennial, evergreen, constant, continuously, seriatim, in a line, in succession, in turn, running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch, in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.
N regularity of recurrence, periodicity, intermittence, beat, oscillation, pulse, pulsation, rhythm, alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity, bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say, anniversary, jubilee, centenary, catamenia, courses, menses, menstrual flux, rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine, days of the week, Sunday, Monday, months of the year, January, feast, fast, Christmas, Easter, New Year's day, Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day, All Souls', All Souls' Day, Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day, yearbook, yuletide, punctuality, regularity, steadiness, periodic, periodical, serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical, recurring, intermittent, remittent, alternate, every other, hourly, diurnal, daily, quotidian, tertian, weekly, hebdomadal, hebdomadary, biweekly, fortnightly, bimonthly, catamenial, monthly, menstrual, yearly, annual, biennial, triennial, centennial, secular, paschal, lenten, regular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork, periodically, at regular intervals, at stated times, at fixed established, at established periods, punctually, de die in diem, from day to day, day by day, by turns, in turn, in rotation, alternately, every other day, off and on, ride and tie, round and round.
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