Serial

Serial describes a group of objects that come one after the other.

• Serial number: giving a number to each item to make them orderly
• Serial communication: a computer connection that moves pieces of information one at a time.
• Movie serial: a short movie that has chapters that come one after the other shown with a bigger film, first shown around 1930 and 1940
• Serial killer: someone who murdered people at different times
• Serialism: a way of ordering notes in music
• Serial (publishing): the publication of a journal in separate parts under the same title. Example: Nature (journal).
• Serial (literature) often a work of narrative fiction published in sequential installments.
• Serial (radio and television), series of radio and television programs that rely on a continuing plot