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Serial   /sˈɪrˌiəl/   Listen
adjective
Serial  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication. "Classification... may be more or less serial."
2.
(Bot.) Of or pertaining to rows.
Serial homology. (Biol.) See under Homology.
Serial symmetry. (Biol.) See under Symmetry.


noun
Serial  n.  A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.





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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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