Serial may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
The presentation of works in sequential segments
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Serial (literature)
In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger Creative work, work, often a work of Narrative, narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential instalments. The instalments are also known as ''numbers ...
, 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 serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, gene ...
, 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
SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host adapter, 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 (PAT ...
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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
I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit; pronounced as "" or ""), alternatively known as I2C and IIC, is a synchronous, multi-master/multi-slave, single-ended, serial communication bus invented in 1980 by Philips Semiconductors (now NXP Semiconduct ...
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1-Wire
1-Wire is a Wired communication, wired half duplex, half-duplex Serial communication, serial Bus (computing), bus designed by Dallas Semiconductor that provides low-speed (16.3 kbit/s) data communication and IC power-supply pin, supply volt ...
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Serial Peripheral Interface Bus
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) is a de facto standard (with many #Variations, variants) for Comparison of synchronous and asynchronous signalling, synchronous serial communication, used primarily in embedded systems for short-distance wired c ...
(SPI)
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Serial cable
A serial cable or RS-232 cable is a electrical cable, cable used to transfer information between two devices using a serial communication protocol. The form of connectors depends on the particular serial port used. A cable wired for connecting two ...
, 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
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 a ...
, 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
Asynchronous serial communication is a form of serial communication in which the communicating endpoints' interfaces are not continuously synchronized by a common clock signal. Synchronization ( clock recovery) is done by data-embedded signal ...
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Synchronous serial communication
Synchronous serial communication describes a serial communication protocol , "In synchronous transmission, groups of bits are combined into frames,and frames are sent continuously with or without data to be transmitted."
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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
A SCSI connector ( ) is used to connect computer parts that communicate with each other via the SCSI standard. Generally, two connectors, designated male and female, plug together to form a connection which allows two components, such as a comput ...
, serial SCSI disk-drives
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Universal Serial Bus
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard, developed by USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), for digital data transmission and power delivery between many types of electronics. It specifies the architecture, in particular the physical ...
, also known as USB
Other uses
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Serial code
A serial number (SN) is a unique identifier used to ''uniquely'' identify an item, and is usually assigned incrementally or sequentially.
Despite being called serial "numbers", they do not need to be strictly numerical and may contain letters ...
or serial number
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Serial comma
The serial comma (also referred to as the series comma, Oxford comma, or Harvard comma) is a comma placed after the second-to-last term in a list (just before the conjunction) when writing out three or more terms. For example, a list of three c ...
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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 set theory a serial relation is a homogeneous relation expressing the connection of an element of a sequence to the following element. The successor function used by Peano to define natural numbers is the prototype for a serial relation.
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in mathematics, a binary relation ''R'' that relates every ''x'' to some ''y''
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Cereal (disambiguation)
Cereals are grasses cultivated for the edible components of their grain.
Cereal may also refer to:
*Breakfast cereal, grain-based foods
*Cereals and pseudocereals collectively
*an adjective referring to the goddess Ceres (mythology), Ceres
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(a homophone)
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Serialism (philosophy)
''An Experiment with Time'' is a book by the British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher J. W. Dunne (1875–1949) about his precognitive dreams and a theory of time which he later called "Serialism". First published in March 1927 ...
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Serialism
In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements. Serialism began primarily with Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, though some of his contemporaries were also ...
, 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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