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)
In publishing and library and information science, the term serial is applied to materials "in any medium issued under the same title in a succession of discrete parts, usually numbered (or dated) and appearing at regular or irregular intervals wi ...
, periodical publications and newspapers
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Serial (radio and television)
In television program, television and radio programming, a serial is a show that has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even t ...
, 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
Indian television drama (in Indian English Indian serials) are television programs written, produced, and filmed in India, with characters played by Indians and episodes broadcast on Indian television.
India's first television drama was '' Hum ...
, 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 the radio series ''This American Life''
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The Serial
''The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County'' (often referred to as ''The Serial'') is a satire, satirical novel about Marin County, California, written by Cyra McFadden. Beginning in 1976, the book's chapters had been Serial (literature), ...
: A Year in the Life of Marin County'', a 1977 novel by Cyra McFadden
Computing and technology
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SerDes
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A Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) is a pair of functional blocks commonly used in high speed communications to compensate for limited input/output. These blocks convert data between serial data and paral ...
, a Serializer/Deserializer (pronounced sir-deez)
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Serial ATA
SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard t ...
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Serial attached SCSI
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Serial bus
In telecommunication and data transmission, serial communication is the process of sending data one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus. This is in contrast to parallel communication, where several bits are ...
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I²C
I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit, ), alternatively known as I2C or IIC, is a synchronous, multi-controller/multi-target (master/slave), packet switched, single-ended, serial communication bus invented in 1982 by Philips Semiconductors. It is wide ...
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1-Wire
1-Wire is a device communications bus system designed by Dallas Semiconductor Corp. that provides low-speed (16.3 kbit/s) data, signaling, and power over a single conductor.
1-Wire is similar in concept to I²C, but with lower data rates and ...
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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 digit for each clock cycle. Machines with serial main storage devices such as acoustic or magnetostrictive delay lines and rotating ma ...
, a computer typified by its bit-serial architecture
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Bit-serial architecture, a 1-bit processor or CPU architecture with a 1-bit instruction set and microarchitecture
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Serial communication
In telecommunication and data transmission, serial communication is the process of sending data one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus. This is in contrast to parallel communication, where several bits are ...
, 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
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Serial SCSI, serial SCSI disk-drives
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Universal Serial Bus
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that establishes specifications for cables, connectors and protocols for connection, communication and power supply (interfacing) between computers, peripherals and other computers. A broad ...
, 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 is typically a person who murders three or more persons,A
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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, serialism is a method of Musical composition, composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other elements of music, musical elements. Serialism began primarily with Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, thou ...
, 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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