Serial
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Serial, anything in the form of a series, can refer to several things:
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[edit] Art and literature
- Serial, a format by which a story is told in installments
- 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
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Mathematics
- Serial relation, a relation such that every element has a successor
[edit] People
- Serial killers, people who, for psychological reasons, murder victims who are generally unknown to them beforehand in at least three different situations