Definition of Series

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Series

In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists.

A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; -- opposed to parallel. The parts so arranged are said to be in series.

A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.

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.

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

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.

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Series Quotations

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Andy Warhol

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine Hepburn

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Lucille Ball

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead

I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids.
Chuck Norris

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Charles R. Swindoll

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Series Translations

series in Dutch is serie, ris, reeks, set, rist
series in German is Serien, Serie/Serien, Folge, Reihe
series in Hungarian is sor
series in Italian is seria

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