Series

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1. Noun

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, a continuous series of calamitous events.

2. Noun

Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.

3. Noun

An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.

4. Noun

(mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions
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5. Noun

(electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other; "the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors"
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