serial
Adjective:
- Relating to a sequence or series: Describes something that occurs, is performed, or is published in a successive order, one part after another.
- Relating to a single linear order: Pertaining to a method of processing or performing tasks one at a time in a sequence, rather than simultaneously.
Noun:
- A story or program published/broadcast in parts: A literary work, television program, or radio program that is released in regular installments.
- A periodical: A magazine or journal published at scheduled intervals.
Adjective:
- The police investigated a series of serial killings in the city.
- The data was processed in serial order, which took longer than parallel processing.
- She was only interested in serial monogamy, having one long-term partner after another.
Noun:
- I never miss an episode of my favorite detective serial on television.
- The novel was first published as a serial in a monthly magazine.
- This academic serial is issued quarterly.
"Serial comma" (or Oxford comma): The comma used immediately before a coordinating conjunction (usually 'and' or 'or') in a list of three or more items.
- In the list "red, white, and blue," the serial comma is the one after "white."
"Serial number": A unique identifier assigned incrementally to an item to distinguish it from others of the same type.
- Please provide the serial number of your device for warranty registration.
"Serial rights": The legal rights to publish a work in successive installments in periodicals.
- The author sold the serial rights to her novel to a popular magazine.
Serialize (verb): To publish or present (a story, program, etc.) in regular installments.
- The network decided to serialize the classic novel over ten weeks.
Serially (adverb): In a serial manner; one after another.
- The tasks were completed serially, not in parallel.
Serialization (noun): The process of converting something into a serial form or the state of being published in serial form.
- The serialization of the book increased its popularity.
- Adjective: Sequential, consecutive, successive, periodic.
- Noun: Series, installment, periodical, magazine.
"Serial offender": A person who repeatedly commits the same type of crime.
- The judge gave a harsh sentence to the serial offender.*
"In serial": One after the other in a sequence.
- The documents were filed in serial according to their case numbers.
- of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations
- serial processing
- pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series
- serial monogamy
- serial killing
- a serial killer
- serial publication
- pertaining to or composed in serial technique
- serial music
- in regular succession without gaps
- serial concerts
- a periodical that appears at scheduled times
- a serialized set of programs
- a comedy series
- the Masterworks concert series