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Serial   /sˈɪrˌiəl/   Listen
Serial

adjective
1.
In regular succession without gaps.  Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential, successive.
2.
Pertaining to or composed in serial technique.
3.
Pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series.  "Serial killing" , "A serial killer" , "Serial publication"
4.
Of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations.  Synonyms: in series, nonparallel.
noun
1.
A serialized set of programs.  Synonym: series.  "The Masterworks concert series"
2.
A periodical that appears at scheduled times.  Synonyms: serial publication, series.



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"Serial" Quotes from Famous Books



... a single serial novel, "Among the Pines," has, within a very few months, sold nearly thirty-five thousand copies. Two other series of its literary articles have also been republished in book form, while the first portion of a third is already ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 • Various
... exception, appeared first in the shape of contributions to periodicals; and his essays, literary criticisms, and miscellaneous papers are exceedingly rich and varied. The most famous of them was his Confessions of an English Opium Eater, published as a serial in the London Magazine, in 1821. He had begun to take opium, as a cure for the toothache, when a student at Oxford, where he resided from 1803 to 1808. By 1816 he had risen to eight thousand drops of laudanum ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
... Indiana and Valentine, George Sand had secured a place in the world of letters. The magazine which still exists as the Revue des Deux Mondes gave her a retaining fee of four thousand francs a year, and many other publications begged her to write serial stories for them. ...
— Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr
... events recorded here, there appeared in the Boonville Javelin (post-bellum and revived) a serial of reminiscences, which, behind an opalescent gossamer of romance, pictured the Missourians and the chivalrous role they played around that forlornly chastened and be-chased ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... clerk with an all but eidetic memory was going through a batch of fifties. It's not too commonly used a denomination, you know. Coincidence was involved since in that same sheaf the serial number ...
— Status Quo • Dallas McCord Reynolds


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