Serial may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
The presentation of works in sequential segments
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Serial (literature), serialised literature in print
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Serial (publishing), periodical publications and newspapers
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Serial (radio and television), series of radio and television programs that rely on a continuing plot
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Serial film, a series of short subjects, with a continuing story, originally shown in theaters, in conjunction with feature films, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s
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Indian serial, a type of Indian television program
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
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''Serial'' (1980 film), based on McFadden's novel, starring Martin Mull and Tuesday Weld
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''Serial'' (podcast), a podcast spinoff of radio series ''This American Life''
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The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County'', a 1977 novel by Cyra McFadden
Computing and technology
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SerDes, a Serializer/Deserializer (pronounced sir-deez)
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Serial ATA
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Serial attached SCSI
In computing, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a point-to-point serial Communications protocol, protocol that moves data to and from Computer storage, computer-storage devices such as hard disk drives, solid-state drives and tape drives. SAS replac ...
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Serial bus, e.g.,
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I²C
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1-Wire
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Serial Peripheral Interface Bus (SPI)
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UNI/O
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Serial cable, a cable used to transfer information between two devices using a serial communication protocol
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Serial computer
A serial computer is a computer typified by bit-serial architecture i.e., internally operating on one bit or numerical digit, digit for each clock signal, clock cycle. Machines with serial main storage devices such as acoustic or magnetostrictive ...
, a computer typified by its bit-serial architecture
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Bit-serial architecture
In computer architecture, bit-serial architectures send data one bit at a time, along a single wire, in contrast to Parallel transmission, bit-parallel word (computer architecture), word architectures, in which data values are sent all bits or a ...
, a 1-bit processor or CPU architecture with a 1-bit instruction set and microarchitecture
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Serial communication, the process of sending data one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus
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Asynchronous serial communication
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Synchronous serial communication
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Serial port
A serial port is a serial communication Interface (computing), interface through which information transfers in or out sequentially one bit at a time. This is in contrast to a parallel port, which communicates multiple bits simultaneously in Pa ...
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Serial SCSI, serial SCSI disk-drives
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Universal Serial Bus, also known as USB
Other uses
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Serial code or serial number
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Serial comma
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Serial killer
A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders three or more people,An offender can be anyone:
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Serial relation in mathematics, a binary relation ''R'' that relates every ''x'' to some ''y''
See also
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Cereal (disambiguation) (a homophone)
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Serialism (philosophy)
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Serialism, in music
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Series (disambiguation)
Series may refer to:
People with the name
* Caroline Series (born 1951), English mathematician, daughter of George Series
* George Series (1920–1995), English physicist
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
* Series, the ordered sets used i ...
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