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Series   /sˈɪriz/   Listen
Series

noun
(pl. series)
1.
Similar things placed in order or happening one after another.
2.
A serialized set of programs.  Synonym: serial.  "The Masterworks concert series"
3.
A periodical that appears at scheduled times.  Synonyms: serial, serial publication.
4.
(sports) several contests played successively by the same teams.
5.
(electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other.
6.
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"
7.
(mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions.



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"Series" Quotes from Famous Books



... In a series of experiments at the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, it was found that in raising oats, every ton of dry matter grown required 522.4 tons of water to produce it; for every ton of dry matter of corn there were required 309.8 tons of water; a ton of dry red clover requires ...
— The First Book of Farming • Charles L. Goodrich
... own manner, it is true—but with sufficient promptness and intelligence to satisfy them that they might rely upon him. Having reached a certain lonely spot among the hills, contiguous to the crag, or series of crags, called the Wolf's Neck, Chub made the party all dismount, and hide their horses in a thicket into which they found it no easy matter to penetrate. This done, he led them out again, cautiously moving ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms
... native language, that he was looked upon by his countrymen of that Welsh college as the rising Bard of the age. After completing his collegiate course he returned to Wales, where he was ordained a minister of the Church in the year 1745. The next seven years of his life were a series of cruel disappointments and pecuniary embarrassments. The grand wish of his heart was to obtain a curacy and to settle down in Wales. Certainly a very reasonable wish. To say nothing of his being a great genius, he was eloquent, highly learned, modest, meek and of irreproachable ...
— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow
... so frequently during our country rambles, suggests by its spreading aspect a [533] clever juggler balancing on his upturned chin a widely-branched series of delicate green saucers on fragile stems, which ramify below from a single rod. Each saucer is the bearer again of sub-divided pedicels which stretch out to support other brightly verdant little leafy dishes; so that the whole system ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... bird carvings in the most cursory manner, being curious to see what species were represented. The inaccurate identification of some of these by the authors of "The Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley" led to the examination of the series as a whole, and subsequently to the discussion they had received at the hands of various authors. The carvings are, therefore, here considered rather from the stand-point of the naturalist than the archaeologist. Believing that the question first in importance ...
— Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley • Henry W. Henshaw


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