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A number of things that follow one after another.
Exempel
- A series of small events led to the company's fall.
- A series of storms hit the coast that winter.
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A TV or radio show with many episodes.
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- Friends was one of the most successful TV series.
- The new series starts next month.
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In British English, one season of a TV show.
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- I enjoyed the third series of that show.
- The second series was even better than the first.
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A set of games between two teams.
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- The Blue Jays are playing the Yankees in a four game series.
- They won the series in three straight games.
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A group of rough diamonds of mixed quality.
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- The dealer looked at a series of rough diamonds before making an offer.
- A new series arrived from the mine last week.
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In math, the sum of the terms of a sequence of numbers.
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- Mathematicians have studied the harmonic series for centuries.
- This infinite series adds up to a fixed number.
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In science, a rank used to group living things, above order.
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- Scientists placed the group within a larger series.
- The series sits between order and superorder in this system.
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In science, a rank used to group living things, above group.
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- Botanists sometimes use a series to group related plants.
- The series sits between group and epifamily in this system.
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In science, a rank below section and above species in a plant genus.
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- The genus is split into several series by leaf shape.
- This plant belongs to the largest series in the genus.
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In language study, a set of sounds that share a feature.
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- The voiceless stops form one series in this language.
- Linguists grouped the sounds into a nasal series.