Category:Series

Se"ries, n. Etym: [l. series, fr. serere, sertum, to join or bind Together; cf. Gr. sarit thread. Cf. Assert, desert a solitude, exert, Insert, seraglio.]

1. 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. During some years his life a series of triumphs. Macaulay.

2. (biol.)

Defn: any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several Subordinate related groups.

Note: sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only Orders or families; in other cases only species.

3. (math.)

Defn: 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.