Series may refer to:

People with the name

* Caroline Series (born 1951), English mathematician, daughter of George Series *

George Series George William Series FRS (22 February 1920 – 2 January 1995) was a British physicist, notable for his work on the optical spectroscopy of hydrogen atoms. Early life and education Series was born in Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, the son of Wi ...

(1920–1995), English physicist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

* Series, the ordered sets used in serialism including tone rows *

Harmonic series (music) A harmonic series (also overtone series) is the sequence of harmonics, musical tones, or pure tones whose frequency is an integer multiple of a ''fundamental frequency''. Pitched musical instruments are often based on an acoustic resonator su ...

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 ...

, including the twelve-tone technique

Types of series in arts, entertainment, and media

Anime series is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...

Book series A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their pub ...

Comic book series a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...

Film series A film series or movie series (also referred to as a film franchise or movie franchise) is a collection of related films in succession that share the same fictional universe, or are marketed as a series. This article explains what film series are ...

* Manga series * Podcast series *

Radio series A radio program, radio programme, or radio show is a segment of content intended for broadcast on radio. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series. A single program in a series is called an episode. Radio networ ...

Television series A television show – or simply TV show – is any content produced for viewing on a television set which can be broadcast via over-the-air, satellite television, satellite, or cable television, cable, excluding breaking news, television adverti ...

* "Television series", the Australian, British, and a number of others countries' equivalent term for the North American "

television season A television show – or simply TV show – is any content produced for viewing on a television set which can be broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed bet ...

", a set of episodes produced by a television serial *

Video game series This is a list of video game franchises, organized alphabetically. All entries include multiple video games, not counting ports or altered re-releases. 0–9 *''1080° Snowboarding'' *''1942'' *''3D Ultra Minigolf'' *'' 3-D Ultra Pinball'' *''7 ...

Web series A web series (also known as a web show) is a series of scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet, which first emerged in the late 1990s and became more prominent in the early 2000s. A single in ...

Mathematics and science

Series (botany) In botany and plant taxonomy, a series is a subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (botany), section (and subsection (botany), subsection) but above that of species. Sections and/or series are typically used to help organ ...

, a taxonomic rank between genus and species *

Series (mathematics) In mathematics, a series is, roughly speaking, a description of the operation of adding infinitely many quantities, one after the other, to a given starting quantity. The study of series is a major part of calculus and its generalization, math ...

, the sum of a sequence of terms *

Series (stratigraphy) Series are subdivisions of rock layers based on the age of the rock and formally defined by international conventions of the geological timescale. A series is therefore a sequence of strata defining a chronostratigraphic unit. Series are subdivis ...

, a stratigraphic unit deposited during a certain interval of geologic time * Series, a level of provenance in archival science *

Seriation (archaeology) In archaeology, seriation is a Relative dating#Archaeology, relative dating method in which assemblage (archaeology), assemblages or artifact (archaeology), artifacts from numerous sites in the same culture are placed in chronological order. Wher ...

, a method of dating objects * Seriation (semiotics), a concept in interpreting phenomena *

Series circuits Two-terminal components and electrical networks can be connected in series or parallel. The resulting electrical network will have two terminals, and itself can participate in a series or parallel topology. Whether a two-terminal "object" is a ...

, a kind of electrical network

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