Serial

Adjective

 * 1) Having to do with or arranged in a series.
 * The serial killer had a string of victims across seven states.
 * 1) Published or produced in installments.

Synonyms

 * sequential

Derived terms

 * serially
 * serial comma
 * serial killer
 * serial music
 * serialize

Noun

 * 1) A work, as a work of fiction, published in installments, often numbered and without a specified end.
 * 2)  A serial number required to activate software.
 * Go to these sites for serials, cracks and keygens.

Thesaurus
Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, alternate, annual, antimasque, article, audience success, ballet, beating, best seller, bimonthly, biweekly, bomb, book, bound book, broadcast, broadcast drama, burlesque show, canned show, catenary, chapter, charade, circling, classic, clause, cliff hanger, closet drama, coloring book, column, comedy drama, commercial, commercial program, connected, consecutive, consistent, continuous, critical success, cyclic, daily, daybook, daytime serial, definitive work, dialogue, diary, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, editorial, electrical transcription, ephemeris, epic theater, epochal, even, every other, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, fascicle, flop, folio, fortnightly, gasser, gazette, giveaway, great work, happening, hardback, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, installment, intermittent, isochronal, joined, journal, journalese, journalistic, juvenile, juvenile book, legitimate drama, limp-cover book, lineal, linear, livraison, magazine, magazinish, magaziny, magnum opus, masque, measured, melodrama, metronomic, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, monthly, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, network show, newscast, newsmagazine, newspaperish, newspapery, nonbook, notebook, novel, opera, opus, opuscule, opusculum, orderly, ordinal, organ, oscillatory, pageant, panel show, pantomime, paperback, paragraph, part, passage, pastoral, pastoral drama, periodical, phrase, pictorial, picture book, piece, play, playbook, playlet, pocket book, prayer book, problem play, production, progressive, psalmbook, psalter, psychodrama, publication, pulsing, quarterly, quiz show, radio drama, radio fare, radiobroadcast, rebroadcast, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, reportorial, rerun, review, revue, rhythmic, rotary, seasonal, section, sensational play, sequent, sequential, seriate, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, sketchbook, skit, slick magazine, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, soft-cover, songbook, sound effects, spectacle, sportscast, stage play, stage show, standard work, steady, storybook, straight drama, subsequent, succeeding, success, successional, successive, suspense drama, sustainer, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, taped program, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, tight, title, tome, total theater, trade book, trade magazine, undulant, undulatory, uninterrupted, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, verse, volume, wavelike, weekly, wheeling, word-of-mouth success, work, writing, yearbook

Etymology
1840, in reference to the books of  (published in sequential parts, as a series). Formed as, on model of seriālis:, from series: + -alis:.

Cognate to seriale:.

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: sarja-
 * Greek: σειριακός


 * Hungarian: sorozat-
 * Polish:, ,
 * Romanian:


 * Hungarian: sorozat

Noun

 * Finnish: jatkokertomus
 * French:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: folytatásos
 * Swedish: följetong

Related terms

 * seriate
 * seriatim
 * seriation
 * series

Anagrams

 * ariels, Israel, realis, resail, sailer