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In a general sense, a series is a related set of things that occur one after the other (in a succession) or are otherwise connected one after the other (in a sequence). The specific meaning depends on the context.

Contents 1 Sciences 2 Entertainment 2.1 Nomenclature 3 Other

Sciences

• Mathematical series – a mathematics topic over the sum of a sequence of terms.
• Botanical series – named selections of plants and flowers in botany.
• Series connection – a topic in electronics and electrical engineering; the electrical series circuit is a basic ways of wiring components.
• Seriation is a method of dating objects in the field of archaeology.

Entertainment

• Television series – a periodically returning television program or a single year (season) of episodes. An animated series is produced by means of animation.
• Film series–
• Book series – a group of novels that may share a common setting, story arc, set of characters or timeline.
• Serialism – a rigorous system of writing music in which various elements of the piece are ordered according to a pre-determined ordered set or sets, and variations on them.
• Video game series (such as The Elder Scrolls or Metal Gear) consist of a number of games, often including recurring characters.

Nomenclature

2 in a series = Sequel or Duology
3 in a series = Trilogy or Triptych
4 in a series = Tetralogy
5 in a series = Pentalogy
6 in a series = Sextology (sometimes hexology)
7 in a series = heptology
8 in a series = octology
9 in a series = nonology
10 in a series = decology
11 in a series = undecology
12 in a series = dudecology

Other

• On U.S. currency, series refers to the year appearing on the front of a bill, indicating when the bill's design was adopted.

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