Series

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·noun A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.

II. Series ·noun Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.

III. Series ·noun A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.

IV. Series ·noun An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.

V. Series ·add. ·noun A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current;

— opposed to parallel. The parts so arranged are said to be in series.

VI. Series ·add. ·noun In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists.

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