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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



... England—anonymously in America. What curiosity it awakened may be judged by the instantaneous success of the work in both countries: Tauchnitz at once added it to his fascinating list; the French and German translators negotiated for the right to run it as a serial in Paris and Berlin journals. Considerable curiosity was awakened concerning the identity of the authorship, and the personal paragraphers made a thousand conjectures, all of which helped the sale of the novel immensely and amused Miss. Juno and her ...
— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various
... engaged in various occupations: Mr. Trevor relating experiences of steamboat days on the Ohio to Mrs. Cooke; Miss Trevor buried in a serial in the Century; and Farrar and I taking an inventory of fishing-tackle, when we were startled by aloud and profane ejaculation. Mr. Cooke had hastily put down his glass and was staring at the newspaper before him with eyes as large as ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... as he had the greatest reverence for John Stuart Mill, and thought him a safe man to follow. I had another novel under way at the time, and Mr. Sinnett thought it would help The Telegraph to bring it out as a serial story in the weekly edition; and I seized my opportunity to bring in Mr. Hare and proportional representation. In England Mr. Hare, Mr. Mill, Rowland Hill, and his brother, and Professor Craik, all considered ...
— An Autobiography • Catherine Helen Spence
... the third stage. She wrote a novel. It was refused by many publishers in New York, but finally accepted as a serial in the first ...
— The Living Present • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... consideration should be for the fact, emphasized by William James, that there is "no recall without a cue."[29] Here we have a scratching sensation provoked by a mouse as the immediate and demonstrated cue. The images that followed in serial response, proved upon investigation to have been wholly derived from a certain conversation with Dr. X., the night before. The subject had been reflex-action and especially the scratch-reflex of the guinea-pig[30] as investigated by Sherrington; we had discussed also the attempts ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10


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