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The World Series ends with a series of seven games between the champions of the National and American Baseball Leagues. A series is a group of similar things happening one after the other.

Your favorite TV drama that comes on week after week is a series. Each episode is one in a series of many. If you make one mistake after another as you try to make dinner, you could say that the meal arrived on the table despite a series of culinary mishaps. If you have several conversations with your parents about how late you can stay out, you might say your curfew was determined by a series of discussions.

DEFINITIONS OF: series

n similar things placed in order or happening one after another

“they were investigating a series of bank robberies”

Types:: show 35 types...; hide 35 types...; Stations, Stations of the Cross
(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary; chain, concatenation
a series of things depending on each other as if linked together; cordon
a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing; course, line
a connected series of events or actions or developments; cycle
a series of poems or songs on the same theme; electrochemical series, electromotive force series, electromotive series
a serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions; the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series; hierarchy
a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; nexus
a connected series or group; patterned advance, progression
a series with a definite pattern of advance; blizzard, rash
a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences; sequence
serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; string, train
a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding; succession
a group of people or things arranged or following in order; wave train
a succession of waves spaced at regular intervals; helium group
the series of inert gases; actinide series
(chemistry) a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium; lanthanide series
the rare-earth elements with atomic numbers 57 through 71; having properties similar to lanthanum; cistron, factor, gene
(genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; string
a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases); combination
a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock; combination
a coordinated sequence of chess moves; Fibonacci sequence
a sequence of numbers in which each number equals the sum of the two preceding numbers; catena
a chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma); daisy chain
(figurative) a series of associated things or people or experiences; celestial hierarchy
the collective body of angels; data hierarchy
an arrangement of data consisting of sets and subsets such that every subset of a set is of lower rank than the set; taxonomy
a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc; cascade
a succession of stages or operations or processes or units; parade
an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things; run, streak
an unbroken series of events; arithmetic progression
(mathematics) a progression in which a constant is added to each term in order to obtain the next term; geometric progression
(mathematics) a progression in which each term is multiplied by a constant in order to obtain the next term; harmonic progression
(mathematics) a progression of terms whose reciprocals form an arithmetic progression; current, flow, stream
dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; codon
a specific sequence of three adjacent nucleotides on a strand of DNA or RNA that specifies the genetic code information for synthesizing a particular amino acid

Type of:: order, ordering, ordination
logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements

n 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”

Type of:: group, grouping
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

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

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; power series
the sum of terms containing successively higher integral powers of a variable; convergence, convergency
the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit; divergence, divergency
an infinite series that has no limit; geometric series
a geometric progression written as a sum; Fourier series
the sum of a series of trigonometric expressions; used in the analysis of periodic functions; exponential series
a series derived from the expansion of an exponential expression

Type of:: multinomial, polynomial
a mathematical function that is the sum of a number of terms

n a periodical that appears at scheduled times

Synonyms:: serial, serial publication

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; semiweekly
a periodical that is published twice each week (or 104 issues per year); weekly
a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year); semimonthly
a periodical that is published twice each month (or 24 issues per year); monthly
a periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year); quarterly
a periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year); bimonthly
a periodical that is published twice a month or every two months (either 24 or 6 issues per year); biweekly
a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year)

Type of:: periodical
a publication that appears at fixed intervals

n a serialized set of programs

“a comedy series”

“the Masterworks concert series”

Synonyms:: serial

Types:: soap opera
a serialized program usually dealing with sentimentalized family matters that is broadcast on radio or television (frequently sponsored by a company advertising soap products); tetralogy
a series of four related works (plays or operas or novels)

Type of:: broadcast, program, programme
a radio or television show

n (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams

“the visiting team swept the series”

Types:: home stand
a series of successive games played at a team's home field or court; World Series
series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship

Type of:: competition, contest
an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

n (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”

Type of:: connectedness, connection, connexion
a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)

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