series
English edit
Etymology edit
Attested from the 1610s;[1] borrowed from Latin seriēs, from serere (“to join together, bind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Related to desert, insert, sermon, and sorcerer.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪə.ɹiːz/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɪɹiz/, /ˈsiɹiz/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈsɪəɹɪ.ɪz/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)iːz
- Homophones: Siri's, Siris, Ceres
Noun edit
series (plural series or (obsolete) serieses)
- A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
- Synonyms: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence
- A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
- 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
- (broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals
- (Discuss(+) this sense) (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums of a given sequence ai.
- The harmonic series has been much studied.
- (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.
- The Blue Jays are playing the Yankees in a four-game series.
- (zoology) An unranked taxon.
- (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
- (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
- (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.
Usage notes edit
- (broadcasting): In North American English, a year-long group of episodes of a television or radio show is called a season, whereas the word series is a synonym of program or show.
- (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse series with sequence.
Synonyms edit
- serie (obsolete)
Derived terms edit
all terms
- actinium series
- alternating series
- alternating series test
- arthro-series
- binomial series
- chemical series
- continuity series
- convergent series
- decay series
- Dirichlet series
- divergent series
- (electrical) series-wound
- electrochemical series
- electrostatic series
- Fourier cosine series
- Fourier series
- Fourier sine series
- gala-series
- galvanic series
- Grandi's series
- Hahn series
- harmonic series
- homologous series
- hydrogen spectral series
- infinite series
- in series
- Kempner series
- lacto series
- lacto-series
- lacunary series
- Lambert series
- Laurent series
- Maclaurin series
- Malling series
- (media, television) TV series
- mollu-series
- muco-series
- neogala-series
- neolacto-series
- Pickering series
- pre-series, preseries
- Ritz series
- schisto-series
- series circuit
- series dead space
- series finale
- series of tubes
- series original
- spirometo-series
- subway series
- Taylor series
- Taylor's series
- television series
- ten-year series
- time series
- triboelectric series
- trigonometric series
- type series
- Volterra series
mathematics
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Translations edit
a number of things that follow on one after the other
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television or radio program
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in analysis: sum of the terms of a sequence
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References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “series”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading edit
- “series”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “series”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “series”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
Noun edit
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Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
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Interlingua edit
Noun edit
series
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From serō (“to bind”) + -iēs.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ri.eːs/, [ˈs̠ɛrieːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ri.es/, [ˈsɛːries]
Noun edit
seriēs f (genitive seriēī); fifth declension
- a row
- a succession
- a series
- a chain
Declension edit
Fifth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | seriēs | seriēs |
Genitive | seriēī | seriērum |
Dative | seriēī | seriēbus |
Accusative | seriem | seriēs |
Ablative | seriē | seriēbus |
Vocative | seriēs | seriēs |
Descendants edit
- → Albanian: sërë
- Asturian: serie
- Catalan: sèrie
- → English: series
- → Japanese: シリーズ
- → Esperanto: serio
- French: série
- → German: Serie
- → Ukrainian: се́рія (sérija)
- → Interlingua: serie
- Italian: serie
- Portuguese: série
- → Russian: се́рия (sérija)
- → Kazakh: серия (seriä)
- Sicilian: sèria
- Spanish: serie
- → Swedish: serie
References edit
- “series”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “series”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- series in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- series in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
series f pl
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
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Swedish edit
Noun edit
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series c