series

Universal Words noun (plural series) 1 [C,usually sing.] ~ of sth several events or things of a similar kind that happen one after the other: The incident sparked off a whole series of events that nobody had foreseen. * the first / latest in a series of articles on the nature of modern society * The movie consisted of a series of flashbacks. 2 [C] a set of radio or television programmes that deal with the same subject or that have the same characters: The first episode of the new series is on Saturday. 3 [C] (sport) a set of sports games played between the same two teams: England have lost the Test series (= of cricket matches) against India. * the World Series (= in baseball) 4 [U,C] (technical) an electrical CIRCUIT in which the current passes through all the parts in the correct order: batteries connected in series * a series circuit / connection