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)
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, 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: 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
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, e.g.,
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I²C
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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 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, 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
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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)
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