serial

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of, forming, or arranged in a series.
2. adj. Published or produced in installments, as a novel or television drama.
3. adj. Relating to such publication or production.
4. adj. Responsible for a series of usually criminal acts over a period of time: a serial arsonist.
5. adj. Music Relating to or based on a row of tones, especially the 12 pitches of the chromatic scale.
6. adj. Computer Science Of or relating to the sequential transmission of all the bits of a byte over one wire: a serial port; a serial printer.
7. adj. Computer Science Of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations: serial processing.
8. n. A literary or dramatic work published or produced in installments.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Arranged or disposed in a series, rank, or row, as several like things set one after another; placed seriatim; successive, as beads on a string. Also seriate.
2. Characterized by or exhibiting serial arrangement; having the nature or quality of a series; of or pertaining to series: as, serial homology (see homology).
3. Published at regularly recurring or successive times; periodical, as a publication; pertaining to a serial.
4. n. A tale or other composition published in successive numbers of a periodical.
5. n. A work or publication issued in successive numbers; a periodical.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Having to do with or arranged in a series.
2. adj. Published or produced in installments.
3. n. A work, as a work of fiction, published in installments, often numbered and without a specified end.
4. n. computing, slang A serial number required to activate software.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers.
2. adj. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to rows.
3. n. A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a periodical that appears at scheduled times
2. adj. pertaining to or composed in serial technique
3. adj. in regular succession without gaps
4. n. a serialized set of programs
5. adj. of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations
6. adj. pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series