series (noun)
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" [syn: serial]
3: a periodical that appears at scheduled times [syn: serial, serial publication]
4: (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams; "the visiting team swept the series"
5: 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"
6: (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions
7: (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"