Meaning & Definition of Series in English

1. Similar things placed in order or happening one after another

• "They were investigating a series of bank robberies"

2. A serialized set of programs

• "A comedy series"

• "The masterworks concert series"

3. A periodical that appears at scheduled times

4. (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams

• "The visiting team swept the series"

5. (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"

6. 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"

7. (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions