series

noun (plural same)

• 1a number of things, events, or people of a similar kind or related nature coming one after another:the explosion was the latest in a series of accidents he gave a series of lectures on modern art
• a set of books, maps, periodicals, or other documents published in a common format or under a common title.
• a set of games played between two teams, or among any number of individual competitors:a playoff series against PortlandSee also World Series.
• a set of stamps, banknotes, or coins issued at a particular time or having a common design or theme.
• a line of products, especially vehicles or machines, sharing features of design or assembly and marketed with a separate number from other lines: [as modifier]:a series III SWB Land Rover

• 2a set of related television or radio programs, especially of a specified kind:a new drama series

• 3 [as modifier] denoting electrical circuits or components arranged so that the current passes through each successively. The opposite of parallel.

• 4 Musicanother term for tone row.

• 5 Geology (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

• 6 Chemistry a set of elements with common properties or of compounds related in composition or structure:the metals of the lanthanide seriesCompare with period (sense 5 of the noun).

• 7 Mathematics a set of quantities constituting a progression or having the several values determined by a common relation.

• 8 Phonetics a group of speech sounds having at least one phonetic feature in common but distinguished in other respects.