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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
series
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a championship series (=a number of competitions)
▪ the American League Championship series
a comedy series (=a regular TV programme about the same characters)
▪ I used to like the comedy series 'Friends’.
a drama series/serial (=a number of programmes with the same characters)
▪ It is one of the longest-running drama series on Japanese television.
a package/series of measures (=a set of measures used to deal with something)
▪ A package of road safety measures has been announced.
a series of delays (=a number of delays)
▪ After a series of delays and setbacks, the project was finally approved.
a series of lectures (also a course of lectures British English)
▪ a series of lectures on the history of art
a series/sequence of events (=related events that happen one after the other)
▪ The incident was the first in a series of events that finally led to his arrest.
a series/spate/wave of attacks (=a number of attacks in a row)
▪ The killing follows a series of brutal attacks on tourists.
a series/succession of clicks (=several clicks one after another)
▪ A series of loud clicks came from the car's engine.
a string/series/set of coincidences
▪ The accident happened because of a string of unfortunate coincidences.
a television series (=a set of programmes with the same characters or subject, broadcast every day or every week)
▪ He starred in the popular television series, ‘Friends’.
TV series/programme/show/station/channel etc
▪ a TV series based on the novel
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
late
▪ His latest series is probably his best yet and will make many people stop and think about their own lives and relationships.
▪ This was the latest in a series of corruption cases involving Arizona.
▪ The test was the latest in a series that will extend well into the next century.
▪ It's the latest in a series of attacks on schoolgirls.
▪ Last night, residents witnessed another high speed display; the latest in a series of stunts which became notorious last Summer.
long
▪ Even the rain was supposed to be radio-active after the long series of 1954-5 tests.
▪ Tamalpais: Cataract Falls is a long, dramatic series of cascades, one after another, a truly precious sight.
▪ In economic life, in spite of a long series of efforts, little was achieved.
▪ They will make the Bulls play a long series.
▪ A long series of searches beginning with Lowell in 1905 culminated with Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto in 1930.
▪ Powell predicted that Los Angeles would be only the first of a long series of riots and episodes of lawlessness.
▪ The Lancet, for instance, had a long series of articles on various medications that paraded as abortifacients.
▪ Even after that, there would be a long series of hurdles for any secession proposal.
new
▪ Surely he would be better advised to start a new series with Bus Pass Wish One.
▪ The new series already has received a two-year, 44-episode commitment from the network.
▪ We have a new series for the first time breeder by Jane van Lennep taken from her superb new book First Foal.
▪ Notable in this bracket is the new series of Ford Escort hatchbacks and Orion saloons.
▪ They then crafted their new Lexits series in the light of that array of knowledge.
▪ The new series 6000i Model 640 supports up to 32 users and is suitable for small businesses, workgroups and development environments.
whole
▪ The whole series is a tribute to Shakespeare's dramatic imagination, but it does not inspire affection.
▪ The whole 13-chapter series is scheduled to run from 11 a. m. to midnight Sept. 7.
▪ Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood may be related to a whole series of studies of cognitive development by piaget.
▪ These developments face the churches and theology with a whole series of difficult and delicate questions.
▪ A whole series of male clubs sprang up which emphasised the elements of male bonding.
▪ I think it is going into your subconscious and picking up a whole series of signals.
▪ By the end of his Government Baldwin was anxious to make a whole series of Cabinet changes.
▪ Recently this liberalisation of trade has been checked, or at least slowed, by a whole series of actions.
■ NOUN
comedy
▪ Now he could concentrate on his first television situation comedy series.
▪ You might start a personal channel that gathers all new information about the comedy series for you.
▪ She lost best actress in a comedy series to Cybill Shepherd.! folo!
drama
▪ The soap was nominated as Best Drama series but the award went to the murder thriller Prime Suspect.
▪ Why not settle in, raise your little girl, sign up for the concert and drama series.
▪ The Best Drama series award was won by Inspector Morse.
▪ Franz won the Emmy as best actor in a drama series for the 1993-1994 season, not Caruso.
▪ But none of them carries a show, and there are no drama series and few movies that feature predominantly black casts.
television
▪ This became both a movie and the basis for a television series.
▪ Of 139 television series examined, only 18 featured a continuing Hispanic character, the study found.
▪ The presenter of a television series has some advantage over a writer, since filming is more flexible than book production.
▪ As long as there are agents, movies, conflicts, illnesses and death, television series will have cast changes.
▪ Among those whose work was recognised was Mr K K Sampathknmar who received the award for the best television series.
▪ It was the launch of the animated Babar television series in 1989 that started the current Babar cult.
test
▪ It is the most comprehensive of the road test series and is also one of the first to feature colour pages.
▪ On the evidence of the Test series in May and now this, he will be a huge loss.
▪ The hamstring pull which put Lydon out of the Test series was sustained in the closing minutes of a 50-4 win over Chorley.
▪ They hardly looked ready to slug it out in a Test series, but at least they had a victory under their belts.
▪ Furthermore, in a five-match Test series one of the northern or midland venues must forego.
▪ The tourists came here principally to win the Test series and they proved to be worthy winners.
▪ He will be able to return on compassionate leave - particularly if it helps to focus his mind on the Test series.
▪ The Test series began at Edgbaston as it was to continue - with a thumping.
■ VERB
begin
▪ He retreated to Ibiza and, not too industriously, began working on a series of songs.
▪ The stranger began a series of intonations, breathing noisily.
▪ Lovejoy did begin the previous series with a spell in jail.
▪ Raytheon also agrees to begin a series of energy-conservation measures in its plants.
▪ Immediately afterwards workers in the metallurgical sector, led by Lorenzo Miguel, began a series of strikes.
▪ At the beginning of 1985, Rice began a lengthy series of field trips to various regions controlled by the marketing department.
▪ Father Michael Hurley begins a series of articles on prayer on page 14.
▪ John Langford contemplated this phenomenon without expression; then he began to put a series of questions to us both.
follow
▪ There followed a series of spider-like manoeuvres to negotiate the chimney-groove and become ensconced on the ledge belay.
▪ That was followed by a series of appearances on talk shows by doctors who extolled Retin-A as a wrinkle treatment.
▪ There followed a series of raids on Kharg during the rest of August and September.
▪ Here followed a series of grim accusations and counter-accusations resulting in the dissolution of tender romance.
▪ From it follows a series of hardline implications for the other practical issues.
▪ In the following series the reliance on women in fishnet leisure wear became a bit obvious.
▪ The Weimar Assembly protested to the Allies that the terms were too harsh and there followed a series of street demonstrations.
hold
▪ Yet it must be noted that much of the growing Bumiputra ownership was held in a series of trusts and pension funds.
▪ They then held a series of neighborhood meetings, revising the goals in between each round.
▪ It holds a regular series of seminars at which reports are presented on research currently in progress.
▪ Throughout Friday, Cardin held a series of discussions with Rep.
▪ It held a series of well attended meetings, bringing together diverse elements within the labour movement on a unified platform.
▪ Romer, a patient practitioner of the consensus-building school of government, held a series of summit meetings.
▪ A scheme is to be implemented whereby the blooms will be held offshore by a series of floating barriers.
▪ Gramm lately has attempted to soften his image, holding a series of intimate discussions with undecided voters in their kitchens.
launch
▪ A fifty-minute programme about green slime to launch a series that is going to take thirteen hours?
▪ Pleased with the success of reforms in the countryside, he launched a new series of urban economic reforms.
▪ The question last week was whether the city should launch another in a series of environmental studies.
▪ Now it has launched a series of competitions to select the best ways of filling the gaps in Britain's armoury.
produce
▪ I also enjoyed producing a series of Gilbert &038; Sullivan operas, using orchestra, chorus, soloists and actors.
▪ Bertha M.. Clay, another popular name of the period, produced a dime novel series of Gothic Romances.
▪ On removing the paper from the board, an outline is produced as a series of small dots.
▪ She was fed up with the factory-style working conditions involved in producing a day-in-day-out series.
write
▪ I have written about a T.V series which I find appalling.
▪ Stewart, with Tom Braden, was assigned to write a series of articles recounting episodes of 055 derring-do during the war.
▪ Gillian Darley has written and presented a series of books and television programmes.
▪ Unknown to Dana, I began writing a series of free-verse poems about the pictures.
▪ She wanted to write a series of articles, perhaps a book.
▪ We talked about her plans to write a series of Floras, beginning with one for Harris.
▪ He wrote a whole series of novels in which the characters personified some of his leading insights.
▪ I have written several series of readers, now only obtainable in libraries.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a whole range/series/variety etc (of sth)
▪ A regular newsletter keeps people in touch and a whole series of social events are undertaken.
▪ Exercise, in addition to good nutrition, can guard against a whole range of serious ailments.
▪ I think it is going into your subconscious and picking up a whole series of signals.
▪ It is practical activity that is important; the handling of a whole range of materials.
▪ Knitters can choose from a whole range of techniques and their selection will be put on to a video, exclusive to them.
▪ Parks provide space for a whole range of events, from steam rallies to horse shows.
▪ Since then he had survived a whole series of setbacks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a series of articles about the state of the economy
▪ a series of numbers at the bottom of the computer screen
▪ a lecture series
▪ A new TV series called "The Hamilton Dynasty" will be starting next autumn.
▪ As she smiled, her mouth pushed her cheeks into a series of tiny wrinkles.
▪ Beethoven's Ninth Symphony will be the first in a series of concerts at the new concert hall.
▪ Jance has written a series of books that take place in Seattle.
▪ Police smashed a major drugs ring after a series of dawn raids.
▪ Rowling's "Harry Potter" series for children has been amazingly successful.
▪ The new movie is based on the classic TV series from the '60s.
▪ The orchestra is giving a series of concerts to raise money for charity.
▪ There has been a series of accidents on the M25.
▪ What is the next number in the series -- 12, 24, 48, 96?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Call a series of fluty piping notes, also a shrill whistle.
▪ It was to take eight years to produce the entire series.
▪ Since there is only one opening the base has a simple podium on each side instead of a series of pedestals.
▪ The series moves to Candlestick Park tonight for the first of three games on the West Coast.
▪ The conference was to discuss the programmes currently under production as part of the documentary series.
▪ The Roman script was phonetic and the book consisted of a series of dialogues, building up with phrases rather than individual words.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Series

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.]

  1. 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.
    --Macaulay.

  2. (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.

  3. (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.

  4. (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.

  5. (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

    in series.

  6. (Com.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
series

1610s, "a number or set of things of one kind arranged in a line," from Latin series "row, chain, series, sequence, succession," from serere "to join, link, bind together, arrange, attach, put; join in speech, discuss," from PIE root *ser- (3) "to line up, join" (cognates: Sanskrit sarat- "thread," Greek eirein "to fasten together in rows," Gothic sarwa (plural) "armor, arms," Old Norse sörve "necklace of stringed pearls," Old Irish sernaid "he joins together," Welsh ystret "row").\n

\nMeaning "set of printed works published consecutively" is from 171

  1. Meaning "set of radio or television programs with the same characters and themes" is attested from 1949. Baseball sense "set of games on consecutive days between the same teams" is from 186

Wiktionary
series

a. (context electronics English) Connected one after the other in a circuit. n. A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

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WordNet
series

  1. n. similar things placed in order or happening one after another; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies"

  2. a serialized set of programs; "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series" [syn: serial]

  3. a periodical that appears at scheduled times [syn: serial, serial publication]

  4. (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams; "the visiting team swept the series"

  5. a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection; "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies"

  6. (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions

  7. (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other; "the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors"

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Wikipedia
Series (mathematics)

In mathematics, a series is, informally speaking, the sum of the terms of an infinite sequence. The sum of a finite sequence has defined first and last terms, whereas a series continues indefinitely.

Given an infinite sequence , a series is informally the result of adding all those terms together: . These can be written more compactly using the summation symbol .

A value may not always be given to such an infinite sum, and, in this case, the series is said to be divergent. On the other hand, if the partial sum of the first terms tends to a limit when the number of terms increases indefinitely, then the series is said to be convergent, and the limit is called the sum of the series.

An example is the famous series from Zeno's dichotomy and its mathematical representation:


$$\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{2^n} = \frac{1}{2}+ \frac{1}{4}+ \frac{1}{8}+\cdots,$$
which is convergent and whose sum is .

The terms of the series are often produced according to a rule, such as by a formula, or by an algorithm. To emphasize that there are an infinite number of terms, a series is often called an infinite series. The study of infinite series is a major part of mathematical analysis. Series are used in most areas of mathematics, even for studying finite structures (such as in combinatorics), through generating functions. In addition to their ubiquity in mathematics, infinite series are also widely used in other quantitative disciplines such as physics, computer science, statistics and finance.

Series

Series (singular) may refer to anything of a serial form:

Series (United States currency)

On U.S. currency, the series refers to the year appearing on the front of a bill, indicating when the bill's design was adopted. The printed series year does not indicate the year a bill was printed; instead it indicates the earliest year that bills of the same design were first made. For example, Series of 1882 gold certificates were being printed as late as 1927.

Series (botany)

In botany and plant taxonomy, a series is a subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.

Sections and/or series are typically used to help organize very large genera, which may have hundreds of species.

Series (baseball)

In baseball, a series refers to two or more consecutive games played between the same two teams.

Historically and currently, professional baseball season revolves around a schedule of series, each typically lasting three or four games. In college baseball, there are typically midweek single games and weekend series, with all conference games in series of three games, with the second and fourth rounds of the NCAA Division I playoffs being best two out of three game series. These series are often geographically grouped, allowing teams to visit adjacent cities conveniently. This is known in baseball as a road trip, and a team can be on the road for up to 20 games, or 4-5 series. When a team hosts series at home, it is called a homestand. During the Major League Baseball Postseason, there is only one wild card game (one in each League). The remainder of the Postseason consists of the League Division Series, which is a best-of-5 series, and the League Championship Series, which is a best-of-7 series, followed by the World Series, a best-of-7 series to determine the Major League Baseball Champion.

The "series" schedule gives its name to the MLB championship series, the World Series.

The record for the longest series was set in 1904, when the St. Louis Browns played the Detroit Tigers for 11 consecutive games.

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Series (stratigraphy)

Series are subdivisions of rock layers made based on the age of the rock and corresponding to the dating system unit called an epoch, both being formally defined international conventions of the geological timescale. A series is therefore a sequence of rock depositions defining a chronostratigraphic unit. Series are subdivisions of systems and are themselves divided into stages.

Series is a term defining a unit of rock layers formed in a certain interval in time; it is equivalent to the term geological epoch epoch criteria defining the interval of time itself, although the two words are sometimes confused in informal literature.

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Usage examples of "series".

The signal gun aboard Endymion sent out a puff of smoke and a series of flags broke out at the mast-head.

Not only was it exceptionally lofty, and on one flank of that series of bluffs which has before been mentioned as constituting the line upon which the Confederate grip of the stream was based, but the tortuous character of the channel gave particular facilities for an enfilading fire on vessels both before and after they came abreast the works.

But the point is that, where there once appeared a single and absolutely unbridgeable gap between the world of matter and the world of lifea gap that posed a completely unsolvable problemthere now appeared only a series of minigaps.

The Pleiades were all abuzz over the advent of their visiting star, Miss Frances Homer, the celebrated monologuist, who, at Eaton Auditorium, again presented her Women of Destiny series, in which she portrays women of history and the influence they brought to bear upon the lives of such momentous world figures as Napoleon, Ferdinand of Spain, Horatio Nelson and Shakespeare.

The siege on Glenn Abies is just one phase of a series of strategic federal assassinations, beginning with the murder of Order founder Robert Matthews and including the recent massacre at Waco.

Casey Acker, the human resources drone who was conducting her latest in a series of interviews with the Umbrella Corporation.

Shebbeare, a public writer, who, in a series of printed letters to the people of England, had animadverted on the conduct of the ministry in the most acrimonious terms, stigmatized some great names with all the virulence of censure, and even assaulted the throne itself with oblique insinuation and ironical satire.

The topics insisted on, however, were for the most part identical with those which had for a series of years been repeatedly adduced in the commons, so that a repetition of them is unnecessary.

To collect, to dispose, and to adorn a series of fourscore years, in an immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images, was an undertaking sufficient to exercise the genius of Tacitus himself during the greatest part of his life.

It may consist of an advertisement or a series of promotional pieces-a directmail flier, a radio commercial, a TV storyboard or a logo design.

Written by Roy Thomas with digitally recoloured art by Barry Windsor-Smith, Gil Kane and others, each book contained a fascinating Afterword by Thomas talking about the history of the original series.

Roy Thomas with digitally recoloured art by Barry Windsor-Smith, Gil Kane and others, each book contained a fascinating Afterword by Thomas talking about the history of the original series.

Guy parried and backed away from a fierce series of attacks, then turned aggressor and forced Dante to back away from his blows.

As he explained in Collected Words, there were a number of technical problems to be allowed for in the poster: Because the sheet was folded three times to bring it to the square shape for insertion into the album, the composition was interestingly complicated by the need to consider it as a series of subsidiary compositions.

A series of loud crashes from behind it quickly followed as Alec and Wethis beat a hasty retreat.