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SERIAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A periodical that appears at scheduled times
Synonyms:
serial; serial publication; series
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("serial" is a kind of...):
periodical (a publication that appears at fixed intervals)
Meronyms (parts of "serial"):
installment; instalment (a part of a published serial)
Meronyms (members of "serial"):
issue; number (one of a series published periodically)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "serial"):
semiweekly (a periodical that is published twice each week (or 104 issues per year))
weekly (a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year))
semimonthly (a periodical that is published twice each month (or 24 issues per year))
monthly (a periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year))
quarterly (a periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year))
bimonthly (a periodical that is published twice a month or every two months (either 24 or 6 issues per year))
biweekly (a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year))
Derivation:
serial (in regular succession without gaps)
serial (pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A serialized set of programs
Example:
the Masterworks concert series
Synonyms:
serial; series
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("serial" is a kind of...):
broadcast; program; programme (a radio or television show)
Meronyms (parts of "serial"):
episode; installment; instalment (a part of a broadcast serial)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "serial"):
soap opera (a serialized program usually dealing with sentimentalized family matters that is broadcast on radio or television (frequently sponsored by a company advertising soap products))
tetralogy (a series of four related works (plays or operas or novels))
Derivation:
serial (in regular succession without gaps)
serial (pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In regular succession without gaps
Example:
serial concerts
Synonyms:
consecutive; sequent; sequential; serial; successive
Classified under:
Similar:
ordered (having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule)
Derivation:
serial (a periodical that appears at scheduled times)
serial (a serialized set of programs)
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations
Example:
serial processing
Synonyms:
in series; nonparallel; serial
Classified under:
Similar:
asynchronous (not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Derivation:
series ((electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series
Example:
serial publication
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Derivation:
serial (a periodical that appears at scheduled times)
serial (a serialized set of programs)
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Pertaining to or composed in serial technique
Example:
serial music
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Pertainym:
serialism (20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition)
Derivation:
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Context examples:
The Genomics and Proteomics Shared Resource is an integrated resource that provides genomic and proteomic technologies to the Cancer Center investigators for basic and clinical research applications including DNA and RNA isolation, DNA sequencing, serial analysis of gene expression library production, SNP genotyping, STRP genotyping, microarray analysis, quantitative RT-PCR, protein identification and sequencing and profiling.
(Genomics and Proteomics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
Live vaccines prepared from microorganisms which have undergone physical adaptation (e.g., by radiation or temperature conditioning) or serial passage in laboratory animal hosts or infected tissue/cell cultures, in order to produce avirulent mutant strains capable of inducing protective immunity.
(Attenuated Live Virus Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
The HAN has been proven to be pre-neoplastic (premalignant) by serial transplantation into the gland-cleared fat pad of syngeneic mice.
(LobuloAlveolar Mouse MIN, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
Serial stories, he found, were usually published in that weekly in five instalments of about three thousand words each.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
There were unexpected checks for English serial rights and for advance payments on foreign translations.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
On Friday night he finished the serial, twenty-one thousand words long.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
After breakfast he went on with his serial.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Youth and Age was a weekly, and it had published two-thirds of his twenty- one-thousand-word serial when it went out of business.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
To cap everything, the adventure serial for boys, his second attempt, was accepted before the end of the week by a juvenile monthly calling itself Youth and Age.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
These two volumes comprised all the short stories he had written and which had received, or were receiving, serial publication.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
