series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪə.ɹiːz/
ipa: /ˈsɪː.ɹiːz/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹiz/
ipa: /ˈsiɹiz/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹiz/
ipa: /ˈsɪə.ɹiːz/
ipa: /ˈsɪəɹɪ.ɪz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)iːz
homophone: Siri's
homophone: Siris
homophone: Ceres
Forms: form: series
form: serieses
Etymology: Attested from the 1610s; borrowed from Latin seriēs, from serere (“to join together, bind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Related to desert, insert, sermon, and sorcerer.
Senses: examples: text: A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.
text: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.[…]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
ref: 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
synonyms: word: chain
word: line
word: sequence
word: stream
word: succession
word: array
word: chain
word: consecution
word: sequence
word: series
word: string
word: succession
word: train
glosses: A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
examples: text: “Friends” was one of the most successful television series in recent years.
topics: broadcasting
media
synonyms: show
program
glosses: A television or radio program consisting of several episodes that are broadcast at regular intervals.
examples: text: I enjoyed the third series of “Friends”.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Synonym of season (“one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series”).
synonyms: word: season
extra: one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series
examples: text: The harmonic series has been much studied.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The sequence of partial sums ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿa_i of a given sequence aᵢ.
examples: text: The Blue Jays are playing the Yankees in a four-game series.
topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.
topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
zoology
glosses: The optional taxonomic rank above order/subseries, but below superorder.
topics: biology
lepidopterology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
zoology
glosses: The optional taxonomic rank above group, but below epifamily.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
topics: business
commerce
glosses: A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.
Synonyms: word: serie
Derived terms: sense: all terms
word: actinium series
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word: alternating series
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word: alternating series test
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word: arthro-series
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word: binomial series
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word: bioseries
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word: chemical series
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word: continuity series
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word: convergent series
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word: decay series
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word: Dirichlet series
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word: divergent series
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word: docuseries
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word: electrochemical series
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word: electrostatic series
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word: Fourier cosine series
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word: Fourier series
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word: Fourier sine series
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word: gala-series
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word: galvanic series
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word: ganglioseries
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word: globoseries
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word: Grandi's series
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word: Hahn series
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word: harmonic series
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word: homologous series
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word: hydrogen spectral series
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word: infinite series
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word: in series
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word: Kempner series
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word: lacto-series
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word: lacto series
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word: lacunary series
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word: Lambert series
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word: Laurent series
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word: Maclaurin series
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word: Malling series
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word: maxiseries
topics: media
television
broadcasting
media
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word: TV series
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word: megaseries
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word: metaseries
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word: miniseries
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word: mollu-series
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word: muco-series
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word: neogala-series
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word: neolacto-series
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word: nonseries
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word: Pickering series
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word: pre-series
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word: preseries
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word: Ritz series
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word: schisto-series
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word: series circuit
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word: series dead space
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word: series finale
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word: serieshelpmate
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word: seriesmate
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word: seriesmover
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word: series of tubes
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word: series original
topics: electrical
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
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word: series-wound
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word: spirometo-series
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word: subseries
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word: subway series
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word: superseries
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word: Taylor series
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word: Taylor's series
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word: teleseries
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word: television series
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word: ten-year series
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word: time series
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word: time series animation
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word: transseries
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word: triboelectric series
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word: trigonometric series
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word: type series
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word: Volterra series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: arithmetic series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: Balmer series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: basic hypergeometric series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: Brackett series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: confluent hypergeometric series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: formal power series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: geometric series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: Humphreys series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: hypergeometric series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: Lyman series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: Paschen series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: Pfund series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: power series
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: uranium series
Related terms: serial
seriate
seriatim
seriation