Serial

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

Contents 1 Media 2 Technology 3 Mathematics 4 Culture 5 See also

[edit] Media

• Serial, a type of periodical publication
• 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
• 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), on McFadden's novel, starring Martin Mull and Tuesday Weld

[edit] 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

[edit] Mathematics

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

[edit] Culture

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

[edit] See also

• Cereal (a homophone)
• Series

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