noun
pl. -·ries- a group or number of similar or related things arranged in a row: a series of arches
- a group or number of related or similar persons, things, or events coming one after another; sequence; succession
- a number of things produced as a related group; set, as of books or television programs, related in subject, format, etc., or dealing with the same characters
- Bowling a set of three consecutive games
- Elec. an arrangement of devices in a circuit, in which the current flows sequentially through a series of components: used chiefly in the phrase in series
- Geol. a subdivision of a system of stratified rocks, consisting of the rocks laid down during a geologic epoch
- Math. the sum of a sequence, often infinite, of terms usually separated by plus signs or minus signs (Ex.: 1 + 3 + 5 + 7)
- Rhetoric a group of successive coordinate elements of a sentence
Origin of series
Classical Latin from serere, to join or weave together from Indo-European base an unverified form ser-, to line up, join from source Classical Greek eirein, to join together, Old English searu, a snare, armor, Old Norse sørvi, necklaceElec. designating or of a circuit in series
