Serial

Serial

Serial, anything in the form of a series, can refer to several things:

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
*Serial art
*"", a novel by Cyra McFadden
*"Serial (1980 film)", on McFadden's novel, starring Martin Mull and Tuesday Weld

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

Mathematics

*Serial relation, a relation such that every element has a successor

People

*Serial killers, people who, for psychological reasons, murder victims who are generally unknown to them beforehand in at least three different situations

ee also

*Serialization (literature)
*Cereal


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