Serial

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

Media

• Serial, a type of periodical publication
• Serial (film), short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with feature films, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s
• Serial (radio and television), series of radio and television programs that rely on a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion
• Serial (literature), serialised fiction in print
• Webserial, serialised written fiction on the Internet
• Serialism, in music
• Serial art, in which uniform elements or objects were assembled in accordance with strict modular principles
• The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, a novel by Cyra McFadden
• Serial (1980 film), based 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 streams between devices
• Serial Peripheral Interface Bus (SPI), a simple data link standard designed by Motorola
• Serialization, the process of converting a data structure into a linear form that can be stored or transmitted

Mathematics

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

Culture

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

See also

• Cereal (a homophone)
• Series (disambiguation)
• Serial comma