0 used to describe a person who repeatedly commits a similar crime or carries out a similar bad act, or the crime or act itself: --
1 broadcast or published in several separate parts, one after another: --
2 sending information one bit (= unit of information) at a time: --
serial communication
a serial cable
3 arranged one after another: --
He had difficulty in remembering the serial order of the tasks.
4 a story on television or radio or in a newspaper, etc. that is broadcast or printed in separate parts: --
Most of her novels have been made into television serials at some time.
For both consonants and vowels, the decline in accuracy with increasing sequence length was greater in serial recall than nonword repetition.
However, this choice of lag length leaves a considerable amount of serial correlation in the residuals.
Serial sections were made to identify the organisms contained within the grossly observed small cysts.
Serial amniocentises were, therefore, performed until 37 weeks when the biochemical profile of the amniotic fluid was consistent with fetal pulmonary maturity.
Serial music is based on a string of pitches like a kind of melodic pattern.
Moreover, compared with serial robots, parallel manipulators have the advantages of compact structure, low moving inertia, and low cost.
With respect to serial manipulators, such mechanisms can offer advantages in terms of stiffness, accuracy, load-to-weight ratio, and dynamic performances.
Cloned mice from fetal fibroblast cells arrested at metaphase by a serial nuclear transfer.
