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Serial   /sˈɪrˌiəl/   Listen
Serial

adjective
1.
In regular succession without gaps.  Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential, successive.
2.
Pertaining to or composed in serial technique.
3.
Pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series.  "Serial killing" , "A serial killer" , "Serial publication"
4.
Of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations.  Synonyms: in series, nonparallel.
noun
1.
A serialized set of programs.  Synonym: series.  "The Masterworks concert series"
2.
A periodical that appears at scheduled times.  Synonyms: serial publication, series.



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"Serial" Quotes from Famous Books



... told all about the class party to which she had worn it; she gave an account of her vacation camping trip to the mountains and pasted on one page a number of small snapshots taken during the outing; she copied a joke she had read in the paper that morning and discussed the serial story in the boarding-house magazine which all the boarders were reading; she wrote out the directions for a new crocheted tidy her sister had made—Miss Marshall had a mania for crocheting; and she finally wound up with "all the good will and good wishes that Nora Jane will consent ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... not so. He died, in fact, in 1853. His first book—or rather the first edition of his book[1] was published in 1839; yet, unlike the author, it still lives. He is, in fact, the supreme example of the posthumous serial writer. I have no information about Mr. DEBRETT and Mr. BURKE, but the style and substance of their work are relatively so flimsy that one is justified, I think, in neglecting them. In any case their public is a limited one. So, of course, is Mr. ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 24, 1920. • Various
... reign of Losada, the new president. The ousted office-holders and military favourites organized a new "Liberal" party, and began to lay their plans for a re-succession. Thus the game of Anchurian politics began, like a Chinese comedy, to unwind slowly its serial length. Here and there Mirth peeps for an instant from the wings and illumines ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry
... of the "Pansy Books," is equally charming and suitable for week-day and Sunday reading. Always contains a serial by "Pansy." ...
— Lilith - The Legend of the First Woman • Ada Langworthy Collier
... laying down the manuscript, "and thank you for letting me see this. I claim the first refusal. Finish it, have it typed, and send it in, and if I can run it as a serial in The Child at Home, I shall be tremendously pleased to do so. If it goes, it ought to come out ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale


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