series
has definitions from the fields of mathematics,writing,television,performing arts,baseball,sport,electronics
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[ noun ] (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams
Examples "the Yankees swept the series" Related terms |
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[ noun ] similar things placed in order or happening one after another
Examples "they were investigating a series of bank robberies" Used in print (Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)One such wife , Dr._Linden says , became disgusted with her weak husband and flurried through a series of extramarital affairs in the hope of finding a stronger man . (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)A tsunami is not a single wave but a series . Usually the third to the eighth waves in the series are the biggest . It consists_of a series of pipes and a pressure measuring chamber which record the rise and fall of the water surface . (Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)Their kind created an American culture superior to any in the world , an industrial and technological culture which penetrated Russia as it did almost every corner of the earth without a nickel from the Federal treasury or a single governmental specialist to contrive directives or program a series of consultations of interested agencies . |
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[ noun ] (television,performing arts) a serialized set of programs
Synonyms Examples "a comedy series" "the Masterworks concert series" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)For sheer ambition , take the Decca series titled modestly `` Wisdom '' . Volumes One and Two , selected from the sound_tracks of a television series , contain `` conversations with the elder wise_men of our day '' . RCA_Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called `` Adventures in Music '' , which is an instructional record library for elementary_schools . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)The program came_out of the NBC Special Projects department , and was slotted in the Du_Pont_Show of the Week series . About that same time John_Crosby 's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing_space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (writing) a periodical that appears at scheduled times
Synonyms Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)The occasion for this marathon : Angel 's long awaited reissue in its `` Great_Recordings_of_the_Century '' series of the Schnabel-Pro_Arte version . Related terms periodical weekly biweekly quarterly monthly bimonthly issue installment |
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[ noun ] a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection
Examples "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers" "the complete series of Indian-head pennies" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other
Examples "the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (baseball,sport) series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship
Synonyms Examples "we watched the World Series on TV" Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)With Mickey_Mantle and Yogi_Berra both out_of_action due_to injuries , the American_League champs still mounted a 15 - hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers , the most ever used by one team in a series game . (The New York Times,...)The owners would_like each club in the fourteen team league to play a home and home series with teams in its division , plus two games against teams in the other division . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions
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