English Explanatory Dictionary

series

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
  2. A television or radio program consisting of several episodes that are broadcast at regular intervals.
  3. Synonym of season (“one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series”).
  4. The sequence of partial sums ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿa_i of a given sequence aᵢ.
  5. A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.
  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. A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
  10. A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

Pronunciation

/ˈsɪə.ɹiːz/ /ˈsɪː.ɹiːz/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-series.wav /ˈsɪɹ.iz/ /ˈsiɹ.iz/ en-us-series.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Grendelkhan-series.wav en-au-series.ogg /ˈsɪəɹi.ɪz/ /ˈsɪəɹi.iːz/

Word forms

series serieses

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-der. Proto-Italic *serō Latin serō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin seriēsbor. English series Attested from the 1610s; borrowed from 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.

Synonyms

serie chain line sequence stream succession array procession consecution series string train show program season

Related words

serial seriate seriatim seriation

Derived words

arithmetic series Balmer series basic hypergeometric series Brackett series confluent hypergeometric series formal power series geometric series Humphreys series hypergeometric series Lyman series Paschen series Pfund series power series uranium series wavelet series actinium series alternating series alternating series test arthro-series binomial series bioseries chemical series continuity series convergent series decay series Dirichlet series divergent series docuseries electrochemical series electrostatic series Fourier cosine series Fourier series Fourier sine series gala-series galvanic series ganglioseries globoseries Grandi's series Hahn series harmonic series homologous series hydrogen spectral series infinite series in series Kempner series lacto series lacto-series lacunary series Lambert series Laurent series Maclaurin series Malling series maxiseries TV series megaseries metaseries miniseries mollu-series muco-series neogala-series

Translations

Arabic: مُتَسَلْسِلَة Arabic: سِلْسِلَة Asturian: serie Bulgarian: ред Catalan: sèrie Chinese Mandarin: 級數 /级数 Czech: řada Danish: række Dutch: reeks Finnish: sarja French: série Galician: serie German: Reihe Greek: σύνολο Hebrew: טוּר Hindi: सिलसिला Hindi: सीरियल Hungarian: sor Italian: serie Japanese: 級数 Kazakh: қатар Malay: siri Norwegian: rekke Persian: سری Polish: szereg Portuguese: série Romanian: serie Russian: ряд Serbo-Croatian: ре̑д Serbo-Croatian: rȇd Sicilian: sèria Spanish: serie Swedish: serie Swedish: oändlig summa Swedish: summa Tagalog: dalayray Ukrainian: ряд Urdu: سلسلہ
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