series
noun
[ ˈsɪəriːz ]
• a number of events, objects, or people of a similar or related kind coming one after another.
• "the explosion was the latest in a series of accidents"
Similar:
sequence,
succession,
string,
chain,
concatenation,
train,
run,
chapter,
round,
progression,
procession,
spate,
wave,
stream,
rash,
outbreak,
set,
course,
cycle,
row,
line,
bank,
battery,
arrangement,
order,
• a set or sequence of related television or radio programmes.
• "a new drama series"
• another term for tone row.
• denoting electrical circuits or components arranged so that the current passes through each successively.
• "a series circuit"
• (in chronostratigraphy) a range of strata corresponding to an epoch in time, being a subdivision of a system and itself subdivided into stages.
• "the Pliocene series"
• a set of elements with common properties or of compounds related in composition or structure.
• "the metals of the lanthanide series"
• a set of quantities constituting a progression or having the several values determined by a common relation.
• a group of speech sounds having at least one phonetic feature in common but distinguished in other respects.
• "the voiced plosive series [b], [d], [g]"
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin, literally ‘row, chain’, from serere ‘join, connect’.
