What are series?

  • (noun): (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions.
    See also — Additional definitions below

Series

series (singular/plural) may refer to anything of a serial form:

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
... Trek Deep Space Nine (sometimes abbreviated to ST DS9 or DS9) is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe ... instead of a starship, so as not to have two series with starships at the same time (the starship USS Defiant was introduced in season 3, but the ... The series depended on darker themes, less physical exploration of space, and (in later seasons) an emphasis on many aspects of war ...
Fractional Taylor Series
... With the emergence of fractional calculus, a natural question arises about what the Taylor Series expansion would be ... and indicating the limit as we approach from the right, the fractional Taylor series can be written as ...
Star Trek: The Original Series - Production
... His contributions to the series were honored in the name of the "Jefferies tube", an equipment shaft depicted in various Star Trek series ... Later into the series, he helped to create various memorable aliens, such as the Gorn and the Horta ...
801 T.T.S. Airbats
... later adapted into a seven episode anime series, produced by Studio Fantasia and Victor Entertainment ... The series was released in Japan on Laser Disc as a series of OVA episodes between 1994 and 1996, and was licensed for English language distribution by ADV Films ... The series had aired on TVB in Hong Kong on April 9, 1996 ...
Star Trek: The Original Series - Home Video Release
... Episodes of the Original Series were among the first television series to be released on the VHS and laserdisc formats in North America in the 1980s, with all episodes eventually being released on both formats ... In the early 2000s, Paramount Home Video reissued the series to DVD in a series of three deluxe season boxes with added featurettes and documentaries ... announced that they would release the Original Series on Blu-ray ...

More definitions of "series":

  • (noun): (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams.
    Example: "The visiting team swept the series"
  • (noun): A group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection.
    Example: "The Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies"
  • (noun): A serialized set of programs.
    Example: "A comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series"
    Synonyms: serial
  • (noun): Similar things placed in order or happening one after another.
    Example: "They were investigating a series of bank robberies"
  • (noun): (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other.
    Example: "The voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors"

Famous quotes containing the word series:

    “Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.”
    —E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)