Definitions for series

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series se·ries

Spelling: [seer-eez]

IPA: /ˈsɪər iz/

Series is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in series (eeirss).

Definitions for series

noun

1. a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
2. a number of games, contests, or sporting events, with the same participants, considered as a unit:
3. a set, as of coins or stamps.
4. a set of successive volumes or issues of a periodical published in like form with similarity of subject or purpose.
5. Radio and Television. a daily or weekly program with the same cast and format and a continuing story, as a soap opera, situation comedy, or drama. a number of related programs having the same theme, cast, or format:
6. Mathematics. a sequence of terms combined by addition, as 1 + ½ + ¼ + ⅛ + … ½ n. infinite series.
7. Rhetoric. a succession of coordinate sentence elements.
8. Geology. a division of stratified rocks that is of next higher rank to a stage and next lower rank to a system, comprising deposits formed during part of a geological epoch.
9. Electricity. an end-to-end arrangement of the components, as resistors, in a circuit so that the same current flows through each component. Compare parallel (def 13).
10. Chemistry. a group of related chemical elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number:

adjective

1. Electricity. consisting of or having component parts connected in series:

Origin of series

1605-15; Latin seriēs; akin to serere to connect

Examples for series

A series of concerts followed, at which various oratorios and other works were performed.

To make sure there was no mistake, the series of questions was repeated.

French officials were already on edge after a series of apparently unconnected attacks, including the stabbing of police officers.

There should be a series of Coming of Ages for every individual.

Conway goes on to list a series of other coincidences that he suggests are not simply explained.

I—a series of things happened, and I decided I was in the wrong business.

Life is a series of seemingly throwaway moments strung together in a peculiar tapestry, and Linklater has captured it beautifully.

All of the "Coverley" series came out in the English Illustrated.

All of these far future speculations, of course, depend on a series of “ifs.”

Music is a huge part of the tone of Black Dynamite overall—going back to the original 2009 movie on which the series is based.