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Serial   /sˈɪrˌiəl/   Listen
adjective
Serial  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication. "Classification... may be more or less serial."
2.
(Bot.) Of or pertaining to rows.
Serial homology. (Biol.) See under Homology.
Serial symmetry. (Biol.) See under Symmetry.


noun
Serial  n.  A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.





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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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