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serial
noun
1 serial
A serialized set of programs.
synonym: series.
Roget 593:
booklet;
writing,
work,
volume,
tome,
opuscule†;
tract,
tractate†;
livret†;
brochure,
libretto,
handbook,
codex,
manual,
pamphlet,
enchiridion†,
circular,
publication;
chap book.
part,
issue,
number livraison [Fr.];
album,
portfolio;
periodical,
serial,
magazine,
ephemeris,
annual,
journal.
paper,
bill,
sheet,
broadsheet†;
leaf,
leaflet;
fly leaf,
page;
quire,
ream.
[subdivisions of a book]
chapter,
section,
head,
article,
paragraph,
passage,
clause;
endpapers,
frontispiece;
cover,
binding.
folio,
quarto,
octavo;
duodecimo†,
sextodecimo†,
octodecimo†.
encyclopedia;
encompilation†.
[collection of books]
library,
bibliotheca†.
press
etc.
(publication)
531.
[complete description]
definitive work,
treatise,
comprehensive treatise
(dissertation)
595.
[person who writes a book]
writer,
author,
litterateur [Fr.],
essayist,
journalism;
pen,
scribbler,
the scribbling race;
literary hack,
Grub-street writer;
writer for the press,
gentleman of the press,
representative of the press;
adjective jerker†,
diaskeaust†,
ghost,
hack writer,
ink slinger;
publicist;
reporter,
penny a liner;
editor,
subeditor†;
playwright
etc.
599;
poet
etc.
597.
bookseller,
publisher;
bibliopole†,
bibliopolist†;
librarian;
bookstore,
bookshop,
bookseller's shop.
knowledge of books,
bibliography;
book learning
etc.
(knowledge)
490.
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Dutch: serie, televisiefeuilleton, televisieserie, tv-feuilleton, tv-serie, vervolgserie
Polish: serial, serial telewizyjny
2 serial
adjective
1 serial
In regular succession without gaps:
— Serial concerts.
synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential, successive.
Roget 69:
continuous,
continued;
consecutive;
progressive,
gradual;
serial,
successive;
immediate,
unbroken,
entire;
linear;
in a line,
in a row
etc.
n.;
uninterrupted,
unintermitting†;
unremitting,
unrelenting
(perseverence)
604.1;
perennial,
evergreen;
constant.
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Roget 138:
periodic,
periodical;
serial,
recurrent,
cyclical,
rhythmical;
recurring
etc.
v.;
intermittent,
remittent;
alternate,
every other.
hourly;
diurnal,
daily;
quotidian,
tertian,
weekly;
hebdomadal†,
hebdomadary†;
biweekly,
fortnightly;
bimonthly;
catamenial†;
monthly,
menstrual;
yearly,
annual;
biennial,
triennial,
&c.;
centennial,
secular;
paschal,
lenten,
etc.
regular,
steady,
punctual,
regular as clockwork.
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Polish: sekwencyjny, linearny
2 serial
Pertaining to or composed in serial technique.
3 serial
Pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series.
Polish: seryjny
4 serial
Of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations:
— Serial processing.
synonyms: in series, nonparallel.
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