series
• noun (pl. same) 1 a number of similar or related things coming one after another. 2 a sequence of related television or radio programmes. 3 Geology a range of strata corresponding to an epoch in time. 4 Mathematics a set of quantities constituting a progression or having values determined by a common relation. — PHRASES in series (of electrical components or circuits) arranged so that the current passes through each successively. — ORIGIN Latin, ‘row, chain’, from serere ‘join, connect’.
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