series
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
biology
botany
broadcasting
business
commerce
cricket
games
hobbies
human-sciences
ichthyology
lepidopterology
lifestyle
linguistics
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
phonology
sciences
sports
taxonomy
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.
Proto-Italic *serō
Latin serō
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Latin -iēs
Latin seriēsbor.
English series
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.
Inflected forms:
form: series
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: serieses
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
Senses:
gloss: A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
pos: noun
examples: A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.
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.
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.
gloss: A television or radio program consisting of several episodes that are broadcast at regular intervals.
pos: noun
examples: Friends was one of the most successful television series in recent years.
gloss: Synonym of season (“one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series”).
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: I enjoyed the third series of Friends.
gloss: The sequence of partial sums ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿa_i of a given sequence aᵢ.
pos: noun
examples: The harmonic series has been much studied.
gloss: A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.
pos: noun
examples: The Blue Jays are playing the Yankees in a four-game series.
gloss: The optional taxonomic rank above order/subseries, but below superorder.
pos: noun
gloss: The optional taxonomic rank above group, but below epifamily.
pos: noun
gloss: A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
pos: noun
gloss: A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
pos: noun
gloss: A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.
pos: noun
gloss: A period, stretch of time.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: A series of ill health, however, rendered it expedient for him to return to England
Is it credible that everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power, constitute only a part, and such a small part, of future punishment; and such too, as, after a series of torment, must, next to being made happy, be the most acceptable thing to befall them?
Synonyms: serie
Related words: serial
seriate
seriatim
seriation
Derived words: actinium series
alternating series
alternating series test
arthro-series
binomial series
bioseries
chemical series
continuity series
convergent series
decay series
Dirichlet series
divergent series
docuseries
electrochemical series
electrostatic series
Fourier cosine series
Fourier series
Fourier sine series
gala-series
galvanic series
ganglioseries
globoseries
Grandi's series
Hahn series
harmonic series
homologous series
hydrogen spectral series
infinite series
in series
Kempner series
lacto series
lacto-series
lacunary series
Lambert series
Laurent series
Maclaurin series
Malling series
maxiseries
TV series
megaseries
metaseries
miniseries
mollu-series
muco-series
neogala-series
neolacto-series
nonseries
Pickering series
pre-series
preseries
Ritz series
schisto-series
series circuit
series dead space
series finale
serieshelpmate
seriesmate
seriesmover
series of tubes
series original
series-wound
spirometo-series
subseries
subway series
superseries
Taylor series
Taylor's series
teleseries
television series
ten-year series
time series
time series animation
transseries
triboelectric series
trigonometric series
type series
Volterra series
arithmetic series
Balmer series
basic hypergeometric series
Brackett series
confluent hypergeometric series
formal power series
geometric series
Humphreys series
hypergeometric series
Lyman series
Paschen series
Pfund series
power series
uranium series
wavelet series
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