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serial

Film presented in a series of episodes over several months. The serials, usually adventure melodramas, probably developed from the adventure stories published in monthly installments in magazines. The first internationally popular serial, The Perils of Pauline (1914), starring Pearl White, was followed by other serials such as The Hazards of Helen, which ran for 119 episodes (1914–17). Serials focused on action sequences, with cliff-hanging endings for each episode. They remained popular with movie audiences, especially children, into the 1940s.

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serial

One after the other.

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serial

1. Computing of or operating on items of information, instructions, etc., in the order in which they occur

2. of, relating to, or using the techniques of serialism

3. Logic maths (of a relation) connected, transitive, and asymmetric, thereby imposing an order on all the members of the domain, as less than on the natural numbers

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serial [′sir·ē·əl]

(computer science)

Pertaining to the internal handling of data in sequential fashion.

(industrial engineering)

An element or a group of elements within a series which is given a numerical or alphabetical designation for convenience in planning, scheduling, and control.