series Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun similar things placed in order or happening one after another
    • they were investigating a series of bank robberies
  2. noun a serialized set of programs
    serial.
    • a comedy series
    • the Masterworks concert series
  3. noun a periodical that appears at scheduled times
    serial; serial publication.
  4. noun (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams
    • the visiting team swept the series
  5. noun (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
  6. noun 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
  7. noun (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions

WordNet

Se"ries noun
Etymology
L. series, fr. serere, sertum, to join or bind together; cf. Gr. to fasten, Skr. sarit thread. Cf. Assert, Desert a solitude, Exert, Insert, Seraglio.
Definitions
  1. A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
    During some years his life a series of triumphs. Macaulay.
  2. (Biol.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. ✍ Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species.
  3. (Math.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.

Webster 1913