series

英['sɪəriːz;-rɪz] 美['sɪriz]

1. similar things placed in order or happening one after another;

"they were investigating a series of bank robberies"

2. a serialized set of programs;

"a comedy series"

"the Masterworks concert series"

3. a periodical that appears at scheduled times

4. (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams;

"the visiting team swept the series"

5. a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection;

"the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"

"his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies"

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

7. (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"