Series (Noun)
Meaning 1
Similar things placed in order or happening one after another; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies".
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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- Line
- Electrochemical Series
- Concatenation
- Train
- Stations Of The Cross
- Electromotive Force Series
- Patterned Advance
- Blizzard
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Meaning 2
A serialized set of programs; "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 3
(electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other; "the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors".
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Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
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Meaning 4
A group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection; "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies".
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 5
(sports) several contests played successively by the same teams; "the visiting team swept the series".
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Nouns denoting natural events.
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Meaning 6
(mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The Taylor series of a function is a way to represent it as an infinite sum of terms.
- The Fourier series is a mathematical tool used to decompose a function into its constituent frequencies.
- The geometric series is a sequence of numbers in which each term is obtained by multiplying the previous term by a fixed constant.
- The power series is a series of the form a + bx + cx^2 + dx^3 + ..., where a, b, c, and d are constants.
- The Maclaurin series is a special type of Taylor series that is used to represent a function around the point x = 0.
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Meaning 7
A periodical that appears at scheduled times.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.