[ˈsɪəriːz], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a number of events, objects, or people of a similar or related kind coming one after another
(e.g: the explosion was the latest in a series of accidents)

- a set or sequence of related television or radio programmes
(e.g: a new drama series)


- denoting electrical circuits or components arranged so that the current passes through each successively
(e.g: a series circuit)

- (in chronostratigraphy) a range of strata corresponding to an epoch in time, being a subdivision of a system and itself subdivided into stages
(e.g: the Pliocene series)

- a set of elements with common properties or of compounds related in composition or structure
(e.g: the metals of the lanthanide series)

- a set of quantities constituting a progression or having the several values determined by a common relation

- a group of speech sounds having at least one phonetic feature in common but distinguished in other respects
(e.g: the voiced plosive series [b], [d], [g])


Phrases:
- in series

Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin, literally ‘row, chain’, from serere ‘join, connect’