Serial
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Serial, anything in the form of a series, can refer to several things:

Media

• Serial, a format in which fictional or non-fictional work is released in any medium in installments, regularly or irregularly. This includes newspapers, proceedings, annals and many comics, as well as periodicals such as magazines, newsletters, and journals.[1][2]
  • Serial (film), films released in chapters for viewing in cinemas, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s
  • Serial (radio and television), serialised fiction in the television and radio media
    • Miniseries, a production that tells a story in a limited number of episodes
  • Serial (literature), serialised fiction in print
  • Webserial, serialised written fiction on the Internet
• Serialism, in music
• Serial art
• The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, a novel by Cyra McFadden
• Serial (1980 film), on McFadden's novel, starring Martin Mull and Tuesday Weld

Technology

• Serial cable, a type of computer cable
• Serial communications, computer communication technologies that use a single stream of data
• Serial number, a unique number identifying a specific example of a particular product
• Serial port, a personal computer interface for transferring data between low-power devices
• Serial Peripheral Interface Bus, a simple data link standard designed by Motorola

Mathematics

• Serial relation, a relation such that every element has a successor

People

• Serial killers, people who, for psychological reasons, murder victims who are generally unknown to them beforehand in at least three different situations

See also

• Cereal (a homonym)
• Series

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