series

noun (plural same)

• 1a 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 he gave a series of lectures on modern art
• a set of books, periodicals, or other documents published in a common format or under a common title: the first four books in the Toybox Science series a series of travel books
• a set of games played between two teams:the Test series against Australia
• a set of stamps, banknotes, or coins issued at a particular time: a series of five stamps issued today to mark the 14th World Orchid Conference

• 2a set or sequence of related television or radio programmes:a new drama series

• 3 Musicanother term for tone row.

• 4 [as modifier] denoting electrical circuits or components arranged so that the current passes through each successively: a series circuit the series connection of the two coilsThe opposite of parallel.

• 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 series

• 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: the voiced plosive series [b], [d], [g]