series

Borrowed from Latin series, from serere (“to join together, bind”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪə.ɹiːz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹiz/
• Homophones: Siri's, Siris

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series (plural series)

1. A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

   Synonyms: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎:

     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.

   • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:

     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.

   A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.

2. (broadcasting, US, Canada) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

   Synonyms: show, program

   “Friends” was one of the most successful television series in recent years.

3. (broadcasting, Britain) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.

   Synonym: season (North America)

   The third series of “Friends” aired from 1996 to 1997.

4. (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums ${\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}{a_{i}}}$ of a given sequence a_i.

   The harmonic series has been much studied.

5. (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

   The Blue Jays are playing the Yankees in a four-game series.

6. (zoology) An unranked taxon.
7. (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
8. (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
9. (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

• In the United Kingdom, television and radio programs (spelt in Commonwealth English as "programmes") are divided into series, which are usually a year long. In North America, the word "series" is a synonym of "program", and programs are divided into year-long seasons.
• (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse series with sequence.

• (media, television) TV series
• (mathematics): arithmetic series, basic hypergeometric series, confluent hypergeometric series, formal power series, geometric series, hypergeometric series, power series

• serial
• seriate
• seriation
• seriatim

series (not comparable)

A series circuit

1. (electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit.

   You have to connect the lights in series for them to work properly.

• parallel

• series in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• series in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• series at OneLook Dictionary Search

• reises, ressie

series

1. second-person singular conditional form of ser

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series

1. Plural form of serie

series

1. plural of serie

From serō (“to bind”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ri.eːs/, [ˈsɛ.ri.eːs]

seriēs f (genitive seriēī); fifth declension

1. a row
2. a succession
3. a series
4. a chain

Fifth declension.

• series in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• series in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• series in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• series in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

series

1. plural of serie

series

1. indefinite genitive singular of serie