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Series

noun

(pl. series)

Similar things placed in order or happening one after another.

A serialized set of programs. Synonym: serial. "The Masterworks concert series"

A periodical that appears at scheduled times. Synonyms: serial, serial publication.

(sports) several contests played successively by the same teams.

(electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other.

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"

(mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions.

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"Series" Quotes from Famous Books

... upon rest and quiet. His talk became a sort of relief to Howard, because he refused to admit any possibility of ultimate disaster. No tragedy could keep Mr. Sandys silent; and Howard began to be aware that the Vicar must have thought out a series of topics to talk to him about, and even prepared the line of conversation beforehand. Jack had been sent for at the crisis, but when the imminent danger lessened, Howard suggested that he should go back to Cambridge, in ...

— Watersprings • Arthur Christopher Benson

... don't know quite where I stand. My brain is like a bridge that has been washed out by floods. I am picking up the fragments and trying to rebuild it. For a long time my life has been nothing but a series of emotions. What Honest Abe may be able to prove I know not, but I am sure that he can not disprove the fact that Mr. Davis has been kind and generous to me. For that I can not ever cease to be grateful. I should have married him before now but for ...

— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller

... chose the Gallic provinces, as he would thus be able to pass the winter in Italy and keep up his communication with the city, while the disturbed state of Farther Gaul promised him sufficient materials for engaging in a series of wars in which he might employ an army that would afterward be devoted to his purposes. In addition to these considerations, Caesar was also actuated by the ambition of subduing forever that nation which had once sacked Rome, and which had been, from the earliest times, ...

— A Smaller History of Rome • William Smith and Eugene Lawrence

... the lake, a long series of landscaped terraces leading down to the water's edge, but the driveway wound from the state road up a side of the hill, to the main entrance at the rear of ...

— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin

... walls of variegated marble, its glittering mosaics and columns of porphyry, to-day made her realize that in her life of adventure and passion she was driven, as if by a demon with a whip, and that her horrible situation with Dion was but the culmination of a series of horrible situations. She had escaped from them only after devastating battles, in which she had had to use all her nervous energy and all her force of will. Was it worth while? Was the game she was always playing worth the candles she was always burning? Would it not be ...

— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens

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