serial

Meanings

Adjective

  • Having to do with or arranged in a series.
  • Who performs a specified action or course of action repeatedly or regularly.
  • Published or produced in installments.

Noun

Verb

Origin

  • 1840, in reference to the books of Charles Dickens (published in sequential parts, as a series). Formed as series + -al, on model of Latin seriālis, from seriēs + -ālis.
  • Cognate to Italian seriale.

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