series
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noun- 1.
A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.
Đồng nghĩa: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession, array, chain, procession, consecution, sequence, series, string, succession, train
- 2.
(broadcasting) A television or radio program consisting of several episodes that are broadcast at regular intervals.
Friends was one of the most successful television series in recent years.
Đồng nghĩa: show, program
- 3.
(UK)(broadcasting, chiefly UK) Synonym of season (“one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series”).
I enjoyed the third series of Friends.
Đồng nghĩa: season
- 4.
(mathematics) The sequence of partial sums ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿa_i of a given sequence aᵢ.
The harmonic series has been much studied.
- 5.
(cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.
The Blue Jays are playing the Yankees in a four-game series.
- 6.
The optional taxonomic rank above order/subseries, but below superorder.
- 7.
The optional taxonomic rank above group, but below epifamily.
- 8.
A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
- 9.
(commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
- 10.
(phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.
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Attested from the 1610s; Latin seriēs, from serere (to join together, bind), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (to bind, put together, to line up). Related to desert, insert, sermon, and sorcerer.