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Serial

Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication.

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Ordered 84% connected

of Order

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Ordered 84% connected

of Order

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Narrower term 8

Bimonthly 76% connected

Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications.

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Biweekly 76% connected

Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly.

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Monthly 76% connected

Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.

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Quarterly 76% connected

Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons.

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Semimonthly 76% connected

Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment.

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Semiweekly 76% connected

Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip.

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Tetralogy 76% connected

A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently o…

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Weekly 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.

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Broadcast 76% connected

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

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Periodical 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.

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Program 76% connected

Same as Programme.

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Programme 76% connected

That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order…

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Series 74% connected

A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as,…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Series 74% connected

A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as,…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Component part 3

Episode 70% connected

A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digr…

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Installment 70% connected

The act of installing; installation.

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Instalment 70% connected

the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes"

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Issue 70% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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Number 70% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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Series 66% connected

A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as,…

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Consecutive 92% connected

Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sequent 92% connected

Following; succeeding; in continuance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sequential 92% connected

Succeeding or following in order.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Series 92% connected

A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Successive 92% connected

Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consec…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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