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Series

noun

(pl. series)

Similar things placed in order or happening one after another.

A serialized set of programs. Synonym: serial. "The Masterworks concert series"

A periodical that appears at scheduled times. Synonyms: serial, serial publication.

(sports) several contests played successively by the same teams.

(electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other.

A group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection. "His coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies"

(mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions.

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... fully the allegory of this poem in a letter to Mr. Henry T. Tuckerman. He said: "This (his intention) was no more than to display, in a series of pictures, the life of a man of genius, resisting all temptations, laying aside all fears, heedless of all warnings, and pressing right on to accomplish his purpose. His motto is Excelsior, 'higher.' He passes through the Alpine village,—through ...

— Selections From American Poetry • Various

... of his entranced vision from the series of external facts to which his consciousness had returned. Isaiah gives us the date of his vision in the Temple—"the year that King Uzziah died"—and if afterwards the mighty-winged seraphim were present with him as he trod the street, he doubtless knew them for images of memory, and ...

— Impressions of Theophrastus Such • George Eliot

... the N.W.C.T.U. has been pressing for the insertion of one temperance lesson per quarter in the International series of Sabbath- ...

— Why and how: a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada • Addie Chisholm

... is in the tubes," guessed Tom easily. "And at one end of each tube is a sharp metal point that permits of being driven into the crevices in the wall. Four, or more, of these tubes are thrust into the wall, I suppose, and connected in series, so that they can be fired by the same electric spark. These tubes and the wires are water-proofed. The negro is only the dastardly workman in this case. It was never he who invented the trick. But he must be an excellent workman, who ought to be employed in much more honest effort. I wonder ...

— The Young Engineers on the Gulf - The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater • H. Irving Hancock

... doing any injury to each other was religiously observed. In these nocturnal conversations, held without witnesses, I often brought back to a life of peace mistaken men, whom the turbulence of youth had thrown into a series of crimes, which the laws would have visited with most severe punishment. Sometimes, however, I failed in my attempts, and especially when I had to do with proud and untameable characters, such as are ...

— Adventures in the Philippine Islands • Paul P. de La Gironiere

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