Dictionary  se•riesPronunciation: (sēr'ēz), [key] —n., pl. -ries, —adj. —n. 1. a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence. 2. a number of games, contests, or sporting events, with the same participants, considered as a unit: The two baseball clubs played a five-game series. 3. a set, as of coins or stamps. 4. a set of successive volumes or issues of a periodical published in like form with similarity of subject or purpose. 5. Radio and Television. a. a daily or weekly program with the same cast and format and a continuing story, as a soap opera, situation comedy, or drama. b. a number of related programs having the same theme, cast, or format: a series of four programs on African wildlife. 6. Math. a. a sequence of terms combined by addition, as 1 + ½ + ¼ + 1/8 + ...½ —n. b. See infinite series. 7. Rhet.a succession of coordinate sentence elements. 8. Geol.a division of stratified rocks that is of next higher rank to a stage and next lower rank to a system, comprising deposits formed during part of a geological epoch. 9. Elect.an end-to-end arrangement of the components, as resistors, in a circuit so that the same current flows through each component. Cf. parallel (def. 13). 10. Chem.a group of related chemical elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number: the lanthanide series. —adj. Elect.consisting of or having component parts connected in series: a series circuit; a series generator. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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