The Collaborative International Dictionary
Series \Se"ries\, n. [L. series, fr. serere, sertum, to join or bind together; cf. Gr. ??? to fasten, Skr. sarit thread. Cf. Assert, Desert a solitude, Exert, Insert, Seraglio.]
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A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
During some years his life a series of triumphs.
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(Biol.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species.
(Bot.) In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists.
(Math.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.
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(Elec.) A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; -- opposed to parallel. The parts so arranged are said to be
(Com.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 One after another. sequentially. 2 (context electricity English) Electrical components connected in a chain, instead of in parallel.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations; "serial processing" [syn: serial, in series(p), nonparallel]
Usage examples of "in series".
In that space of time the world produced over twelve thousand five hundred of these strange monsters, in schools, in types, in series, each larger and heavier and more deadly than its predecessors.
Connecting their batteries was little more than disconnecting the internal power cables and running them from one set of batteries to another in series until the final connections were made on the pad they would use.
Halsey had lived and died a unimaginably long time ago, back when the ship then bearing the already proud name of Enterprise had been the first of three aircraft carriers that, in series, had belonged to the old United States Navy.
There was a repetitive series of explosions that shuddered through the ship as sixteen cannon shots went off in series.
The next three volleys landed-in series, north to south-on the nearest fringes of the crowd.
The only states are open and closed, and the complexities that can be created by arranging such gates in series or parallel.
From a pocket Stunted took what was unmistakably ordinary copper wires, a telegraph key and a battery, hooked in series.
The only way I know to breach the vault is to hit the Defense Center site with annihilation weapons in series, and I think you'll understand we don't wish to do that.
Several annihilation devices, exploded in series just over the vault, might do the trick—.
Wires from the storage batteries had been hooked in series and rigged across the port.
They paused at the pier, put the pressure gauge on the first two tanks in series, and found them charged, as Rick had predicted.
Then brake lights flashed in series, and the congestion that anticipated the 405 freeway put the Mercedes back in my sights.
Sometimes they sounded in series starting at the front and working slowly back, so that their roar passed overhead like an aeroplane sometimes in unison, dash dot dash, K for Karfeld our elected leader.
Blackwood's fiction includes both novels and shorter tales, the latter sometimes independent and sometimes arrayed in series.
As we sat at meals, he took us in series and fixed upon each, for near a minute at a time, the same hard and thoughtful stare.