EGAVE

series

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 102.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun Synonym of season (“one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series”).
    I enjoyed the third series of Friends.
  4. noun The sequence of partial sums ∑i=1nai of a given sequence ai.
    The harmonic series has been much studied.
  5. noun 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. noun The optional taxonomic rank above order/subseries, but below superorder. The optional taxonomic rank above group, but below epifamily. A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
  7. noun The optional taxonomic rank above order/subseries, but below superorder.
  8. noun The optional taxonomic rank above group, but below epifamily.

Similar words

serial world series serial publication sequence total sequencing processed collation order successive

Often followed by

of is in and with are on was for

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