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Definition: Series |
SeriesNoun1. Similar things placed in order or happening one after another; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies". 2. A serialized set of programs; "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series". 3. A periodical that appears at scheduled times. 4. (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams; "the Yankees swept the series". 5. A group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection; "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies". 6. (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions. 7. (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other; "the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "series" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Archeological | "A group of documents arranged or maintained as a unit within a file system because of their shared circumstances of creation, receipt, or use. An example of a list of series would be: 1) incoming correspondence, 2) outgoing correspondence, 3) bills and check receipts, 4) photographs, and 5) legal documents." (NPS 1996:D64). (references) |
Computing | Circuit elements connected so that the output of one is the input of the next. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The interconnection of cells or batteries in such a manner that the positive terminal of the first is connected to the negative terminal of the second, and so on. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Applied to a machine to denote that it is excited by a series winding. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | A configuration of an electrical circuit in which the positive lead is connected to the negative lead of another energy producing, conducting, or consuming device. The voltages of each device are additive, whereas the current is not. (references) |
Finance | Shares which have common characteristics, such as rights to ownership and voting, dividends, par value, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
| All option contracts of the same class that also have the same unit of trade, expiration date, and exercise price. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Fine Arts | A group that has or admits an order of arrangement exhibiting progression. . . . (a TV series). Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Any number of rocks, minerals, or fossils having characteristics, such as growth patterns, succession, composition, or occurrence, that make it possible to arrange them in a natural sequence b. A conventional stratigraphic unit that is a division of a system. A series commonly constitutes a major unit of chronostratigraphic correlation within a province, between provinces, or between continents c. May be applied to intrusive rocks in the same time-stratigraphic sense. Formal series names are binomial, usually consisting of a geographic name (generally but not necessarily with the adjectival ending -an or -ian) and the word Series, the initial letter of both terms being capitalized. See also:igneous-rock series d. An arrangement of electric blasting caps in which the firing currentpasses through each of them in a single circuit. (references) |
Physics | The idea of -- of successive radioactive disintegrations is explicit in the writings of Rutherford. Source: European Union. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | A serial in which each part is usually characterized by a distinctive title in addition to the constant series title and of which the parts are published at irregular intervals. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Serial publication comprising a group of volumes, numbered or not, each with its own title, grouped under a common title appearing for an indefinite period. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Statistics | In Italian usage'series'refers to data arranged according to the values of a variable character, the serial quality residing in the arrangement of these values not in a temporal or spatial arrangements of individuals. Source: European Union. (references) |
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A chemical series is a group of chemical elements whose physical and chemical characteristics vary progressively from one end of the series to another.
Chemical series were discovered before the creation of the periodic table of the chemical elements, which was created to try to organise the elements according to their chemical properties.
Several chemical series correspond exactly to periodic table groups: this is not a coincidence, as the physical properties that group them arise from the same atomic orbital configurations that place them in the same group in the periodic table.
The chemical series of the periodic table are the:
See also:
- Alkali metals (periodic table group 1)
- Alkaline earth metals (periodic table group 2)
- Lanthanides
- Actinides
- Transition metals
- Other metals
- Metalloids
- Nonmetals
- Chalcogens (periodic table group 16)
- Halogens (periodic table group 17)
- Noble gases (periodic table group 18)
- Coinage metal
- noble metal
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The exponential function is one of the most important functions in mathematics. It is written as exp(x) or (where e is the base of the natural logarithm) and can be defined in two equivalent ways, the first an infinite series, the second a limit:
The graph of ex does not ever touch the x axis, although it comes arbitrarily close.
Here stands for the factorial of and can be any real or complex number, or even any element of a Banach algebra or the field of p-adic numbers.
If x is real, then exp(x) is positive and strictly increasing. Therefore its inverse function, the natural logarithm ln(x), is defined for all positive x. Using the natural logarithm, one can define more general exponential functions as follows:
for all and all real .
The exponential function also gives rise to the trigonometric functions (as can be seen from Euler's formula) and to the hyperbolic functions. Thus we see that all elementary functions except for the polynomials spring from the exponential function in one way or another.
Exponential functions "translate between addition and multiplication" as is expressed in the following exponential laws:
These are valid for all positive real numbers a and b and all real numbers x. Expressions involving fractions and roots can often be simplified using exponential notation because
Exponential function and differential equations
The major importance of the exponential functions in the sciences stems from the fact that they are constant multiples of their own derivatives:
If a variable's growth or decay rate is proportional to its size, as is the case in unlimited population growth, continuously compounded interest or radioactive decay, then the variable can be written as a constant times an exponential function of time.
The exponential function thus solves the basic differential equation
and it is for this reason commonly encountered in differential equations. In particular the solution of linear ordinary differential equations can frequently be written in terms of exponential functions. These equations include Schrödinger equation and the Laplace's equation as well as the equations for simple harmonic motion.
Exponential function on the complex plane
When considered as a function defined on the complex plane, the exponential function retains the important properties
for all z and w. The exponential function on the complex plane is a holomorphic function which is periodic with imaginary period which can be written as
where and are real values. This formula connects the exponential function with the trigonometric functions, and this is the reason that extending the natural logarithm to complex arguments yields a multi-valued function ln(z). We can define a more general exponentiation:
for all complex numbers z and w. This is then also a multi-valued function. The above stated exponential laws remain true if interpreted properly as statements about multi-valued functions.
It is easy to see, that the exponential function maps any line in the complex plane to a logarithmic spiral in the complex plane with the centre at 0, noting that the case of a line parallel with the real or imaginary axis maps to a line or circle.
Exponential function for matrices and Banach algebras
The definition of the exponential function exp given above can be used verbatim for every Banach algebra, and in particular for square matrices. In this case we have
if (we should add the general formula involving commutators here.)
In the context of non-commutative Banach algebras, such as algebras of matrices or operators on Banach or Hilbert spaces, the exponential function is often considered as a function of a real argument:
- exp(x) is invertible with inverse exp(-x)
- the derivative of exp at the point x is that linear map which sends u to exp(x)·u.
where is a fixed element of the algebra and is any real number. This function has the important properties
Exponential map on Lie algebras
The "exponential map" sending a Lie algebra to the Lie group that gave rise to it shares the above properties, which explains the terminology. In fact, since R is the Lie algebra of the Lie group of all positive real numbers with multiplication, the ordinary exponential function for real arguments is a special case of the Lie algebra situation. Similarly, since the Lie algebra M(n, R) of all square real matrices belongs to the Lie group of all invertible square matrices, the exponential function for square matrices is a special case of the Lie algebra exponential map.
See also exponential growth.
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The Macintosh II series (or sometimes simply Mac II series) is a series of personal computers in the Apple Macintosh line.The Macintosh II models were "modular" systems which did not include built-in monitors and were intended for business use. Beginning with the Apple Macintosh II and culminating in the Macintosh IIfx, the Mac II series was Apple Computer's high-end line from 1987 until the introduction of the Motorola 68040-based Macintosh Quadra computers in 1991.
The Mac II series models used the Motorola 68030 microprocessor (except for the original Mac II which used the 68020.)
To augment the computing power of these machines, dedicated math co-processors and DSP chips optimized or sound and video were often incorporated into their architecture.
- Macintosh II series
- Macintosh II
- Macintosh IIx
- Macintosh IIcx
- Macintosh IIvx
- Macintosh IIvi
- Macintosh IIsi
- Macintosh IIci
- Macintosh IIvx
- Macintosh IIfx
Reference
- Low End Mac
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The term series can mean more than one thing.See:
- series (mathematics)
- series connection — a topic in electronics and electrical engineering
- TV series
- cartoon series
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In mathematics, a series is a sum of a sequence of terms.
Examples of simple series include arithmetic series which is a sum of a arithmetic progression which can be written as:
and geometric series which is a sum of a geometric progression which can be written as:
An infinite series is a sum of infinitely many terms. Such a sum can have a finite value; if it has, it is said to converge; if it does not, it is said to diverge. The fact that infinite series can converge resolves several of Zeno's paradoxes.
The simplest convergent infinite series is perhaps
It is possible to "visualize" its convergence on the real number line: we can imagine a line of length 2, with successive segments marked off of lengths 1, 1/2, 14, etc. There is always room to mark the next segment, because the amount of line remaining is always the same as the last segment marked: when we have marked off 1/2, we still have a piece of length 1/2 unmarked, so we can certainly mark the next 1/4. This argument does not prove that the sum is equal to 2, but it does prove that it is at most 2 -- in other words, the series has an upper bound.
This series is a geometric series and mathematicians usually write it as:
Formally, if an infinite series
is given with real (or complex) numbers an, we say that the series converges towards S or that its value is S if the limit
exists and is equal to S. If there is no such number, then the series is said to diverge.
Some types of infinite series
- A geometric series is one where each successive term is produced by multiplying the previous term by a constant number. Example: 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16...
- The harmonic series is the series 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5...
- An alternating series is a series where terms alternate signs. Example: 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 - 1/5...
Convergence criteria
1) If the series ∑ an converges, then the sequence (an) converges to 0 for n→∞; the converse is in general not true.
2) If all the numbers an are positive and ∑ bn is a convergent series such that an ≤ bn for all n, then ∑ an converges as well. Conversely, if all the bn are positive, an ≥ bn for all n and ∑ bn diverges, then ∑ an diverges as well.
3) If the an are positive and there exists a constant C < 1 such that an+1/an ≤ C, then ∑ an converges.
4) If the an are positive and there exists a constant C < 1 such that (an)1/n ≤ C, then ∑ an converges.
5) If f(x) is a positive monotone decreasing function defined on the interval [1, ∞) with f(n) = an for all n, then ∑ an converges if and only if the integral ∫1∞ f(x) dx exists.
6) A series of the form ∑ (-1)n an (with an ≥ 0) is called alternating. Such a series converges if the sequence an is monotone decreasing and converges towards 0. The converse is in general not true.
Examples
The series
converges if r > 1 and diverges for r ≤ 1, which can be shown with the integral criterion 5) from above. As a function of r, the sum of this series is Riemann's zeta function.
The geometric series
converges if and only if |z| < 1.
The telescoping series
converges if the sequence bn converges to a limit L as n goes to infinity. The value of the series is then b1 - L.
Absolute convergence
The sum
is said to converge absolutely if the series of absolute values
converges. In this case, the original series, and all reorderings of it, converge, and converge towards the same sum.
If a series converges, but not absolutely, then one can always find a reordering of the terms so that the reordered series diverges. Even more: if the an are real and S is any real number, one can find a reordering so that the reordered series converges with limit S (Riemann).
Power series
Several important functions can be represented as Taylor series; these are infinite series involving powers of the independent variable and are also called power series.
Historically, mathematicians such as Leonhard Euler operated liberally with infinite series, even if they were not convergent. When calculus was put on a sound and correct foundation in the nineteenth century, rigorous proofs of the convergence of series were always required. However, the formal operation with non-convergent series has been retained in rings of formal power series which are studied in abstract algebra. Formal power series are also used in combinatorics to describe and study sequences that are otherwise difficult to handle; this is the method of generating functions.
Generalizations
The notion of series can be defined in every abelian topological group; the most commonly encountered case is that of series in a Banach space.
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Circuits
Left: Series | Right: Parallel
Arrows indicate direction of current flow.
The red bars represent the voltage.In electrical circuits series and parallel are two basic ways of wiring components. As a demonstration, consider a very simple circuit consisting of two lightbulbs and one 9V battery. If a wire joins the battery to one bulb, to the next bulb, then back to the battery, in one continuous loop, the bulbs are said to be in series. If, on the other hand, each bulb is wired separately to the battery in two loops, the bulbs are said to be in parallel.
The measurable quantities used here are R, resistance, measured in ohms (Ω), I, current, measured in amperes (coulomb per second), and V, voltage (joule per columb), measured in volts.
Series Circuits
The same current has to pass through all the components in the loop. An ammeter placed anywhere in the circuit would measure the same amount.Rtotal = R1 + R2
- To find the total resistance of all the components, add together the individual resistance of each component;
for two components in series, having resistance R1 and R2 respectively. For more than two components, add in their respective resistances.
I = V/Rtotal
- To find the current, I, use Ohm's law.
V=IRi
- To find the voltage across any particular component with resistance Ri , use Ohm's law again.
Where I is the current, as calculated above. Note, that the components divide the voltage according to their resistances, so V1/V2 = R1/R2
Inductors follow the same law, in that the total inductance of inductors in series is equal to the sum of their individual inductances:
Capacitors follow a different law. The total capacitance of capacitors in series is equal to the reciprocal of the sum of the reciprocals of their individual capacitances:
Parallel Circuits
The voltage is the same across all the components in the loop.
Itotal = V/(R1 + R2 + ...)
- To find the total current, I, use Ohm's law in each loop then sum.(See Kirchhoff's Laws for an explanation of why this works)
1 / Rtotal = 1 / R1 + 1 / R2
- To find the total resistance of all the components, add together the individual reciprocal of each resistance of each component, and take the reciprocal;
for two components in parallel, having resistance R1 and R2 respectively. For more than two components, add in their respective reciprocals of resistances, and take the reciprocal. The above rule can be calculated by using Ohm's law for the whole circuit
and substituting for Itotal
- Rtotal =V/Itotal
Ii = V/Ri
- To find the current in any particular component with resistance Ri , use Ohm's law again.
Note, that the components divide the current according to their reciprocal resistances, so I1/I2 = R2/R1
Inductors follow the same law, in that the total inductance of inductors in parallel is equal to the reciprocal of the sum of the reciprocals of their individual inductances:
Capacitors follow a different law. The total capacitance of capacitors in parallel is equal to the sum of their individual capacitances:
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A television program (American usage) or television programme (British usage) is a presentation in a television broadcast which may be either a one-off broadcast or, more usually, a periodically returning one. A television series is an example of the latter type.
The content of television programs may be factual (e.g. documentaries) or fictional (e.g. comedy or drama).
A drama program usually features a set of actors in a somewhat familiar setting. The program follows their lives and their adventures. Every program progresses the plot, the characters, or both.
Common TV program periods include regular broadcasts (like TV news), TV series (usually seasonal and ongoing with a duration of only a few episodes to many seasons), or TV mini-series which is an extended film, usually with a small pre-determined number of episodes and a set plot and timeline.
Common TV program formats include:
See also: List of television programs
- TV comedy (typically situation comedy or sketch comedy)
- TV documentary
- TV drama
- TV talk show
- TV current affairs show
- TV cartoon
- TV infomercial
- TV mini-series
- TV quiz show
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SEEDS | English | Southern European Economic Discussion Series | Economics |
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Synonyms: SeriesSynonyms: serial (n), serial publication (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Continuity | Verb: follow in a series, form a series; Noun: fall in. |
Noun: continuity; consecution, consecutiveness; Adjective: succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain; catenation, concatenation; scale; gradation, course; ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent. | |
Arrange in a series, collate; Noun: string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate. | |
Number | Noun: number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer; counter; round number; formula; function; series. |
Order | Gradation, progression; series; (continuity). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Your assertiveness tells me that you feel the same way about me. But ritual remains that we must do a series of platonic actions before we can have intercourse (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Now so far, we have what appears to me to be a series of victimless crimes (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) Life is just a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes (Reality Bites; writing credit: Helen Childress) I've had a series of not-so-nice boyfriends, one of whom hit me. And every time I get my heart broken, the newspapers splash it about as though it's entertainment (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis) We won the World Series. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 2001 World Series (2001) 2002 World Series (2002) Saugus Series (1974) Series 4 (1972) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown is fish baked with vegetables and herbs. Fish should be baked or steamed instead of fried and potatoes should be served boiled with the skin on instead of as french fries. This was a poster in the "Healthy Eating Tips" series. See artwork: PV-30. Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer). |  | The lasagna is made with spinach (as a substitute for meat), whole wheat pasta and low fat cheeses. This was a poster in "The Healthy Eating Tips" series. See artwork: PV-30. Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer). |
 | This CDC lab technician is working on AIDS research during a series of 1988 laboratory studies. Credit: CDC. |  | These CDC lab technicians are working on AIDS research during a series of 1988 laboratory studies. Credit: CDC. |
 | Series of Images from SOHO. Credit: NASA. |  | This series of color-composite maps of Jupiter, assembled from images taken with NASA's ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Time-lapse movies made from a series of pictures taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are ... Credit: NASA. |  | A series of rocky outcroppings are a prominent feature of this Sahara Desert landscape near the Terkezi Oasis in the country of Chad. Credit: NASA. |
 | The West Fjords are a series of peninsulas in northwestern Iceland. They represent less than one-eighth the country's land area, but their jagged perimeter accounts for more than half of Iceland's total coastline. Credit: NASA. |  | Series of photos getting to mountain peak by horse and Working here and there in Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Aruba series 2" by Frank Manno Commentary: "Various shots taken in aruba, including a sunset, aerial, and more... feedback is welcomed!." | "Honor heights series 4" by Kenneth Love Commentary: "Images from Honor Heights Veterns park in Muskogee, OK." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | An acoustic guitar outlining a series of major seven chords. | | Quick safari style excerpt for a television adventure series. |
| An acoustic guitar playing a series of rock chords and rhythms. | | A series of bells being played in a contrapuntal manner. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ferdinand De Saussure | A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | This was the conclusion of the first series of reflection |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | This series can never reach 4 inches, since, however many terms we take, we are always short of 4 inches by an amount equal to the last term taken |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | He wondered where Ford Prefect was. By an extraordinary coincidence, the following day there were two reports in the paper, one concerning the most astonishing incidents with a flying saucer, and the other about a series of unseemly riots in pubs |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | As he drew near the town, he took an impression of change from the series of familiar objects that presented themselves |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In the series, O and P are inseparable |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He fitted his wrench to the enginehead bolts and turned them down evenly, one turn to each nut, around and around the series. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Publishes a series of issue briefs. (references) | |
A lower GI series takes about 1 to 2 hours. (references) | ||
You may be uncomfortable during the lower GI series. (references) | ||
Business | So many people wanting to take their holiday at that time creates a series of problems. (references) | |
Trigem Computer has already placed in the market its 3 models of DVD PCs (DreamSys EX series). (references) | ||
The move is the first step in a wide-ranging series to foster software development and exports. (references) | ||
Children | South Africa | The incident followed a series of recent rapes of baby girls. (references) |
Kyrgyz Republic | The Talent Support Fund, an NGO funded by Save the Children and UNICEF, produced a series of educational television programs entitled "The Rights of Children in Kyrgyzstan" to help educate the population. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | In return, the newspaper halted the series. (references) |
Economic History | Chile | Programming depends heavily on foreign series and movies. (references) |
France | France emerged from World War II to face a series of new problems. (references) | |
Norway | American culture, including movies and TV series, is quite pervasive. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | A series of attacks on Croat policemen in Travnik in 1999 remains unsolved. (references) |
Burma | Since independence in 1948, the army has battled a series of ethnic insurgencies. (references) | |
South Africa | Taxi drivers in crime-ridden neighborhoods were responsible for a continuing series of attacks on rivals. (references) | |
Minorities | Bhutan | Since 1994 there has been a series of negotiations between Nepal and Bhutan to resolve the Bhutanese refugee problem. (references) |
Bhutan | In 1996, 1998, and 1999, refugees held a series of "peace marches" from Nepal to Bhutan to assert their right to return to Bhutan. (references) | |
Netherlands | In June the Council of Chiefs of Police agreed to a series of measures designed to improve police alertness to incidents of discrimination. (references) | |
Political Economy | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | The TTBS uses the ISO 9000 series of standards and is a member of ISONET. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | There is no Constitution; a series of "basic laws" provide for fundamental rights. (references) | |
Australia | Australia is developing a series of bilateral security arrangements in the region. (references) | |
Political Rights | Liechtenstein | In addition the Government organized a series of workshops for female parliamentary candidates. (references) |
Angola | For example, after a series of UNITA attacks, members of UNITA-Renovada in Uige went into hiding because of fear of reprisals from the local population. (references) | |
Jordan | From July to September, the Government initiated a series of consolidations designed to merge many of Jordan's 328 municipalities into a number of larger units that remained undetermined at year's end. (references) | |
Trade | Nepal | Nepal does not follow the ISO 9000 series. (references) |
Mauritius | The Mauritius Standards Bureau manages the ISO 9000 series. (references) | |
Australia | Use of quality standards, such as the IS0 9000 series, is increasing. (references) | |
Travel | Indonesia | The Hepatitis vaccination series takes six months to complete. (references) |
Ecuador | Since October 1999, there has been an intermittent series of explosions. (references) | |
Albania | Business discussions are usually preceded by a series of questions concerning the health, family and general well-being of the parties. (references) | |
Women | Venezuela | The second is the Women's Shelters Program, a series of centers being built to receive, care for, and rehabilitate women in distress. (references) |
Worker Rights | Romania | The unit had conducted a series of human trafficking arrests by the end of the year. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | This measure followed a series of recent accidents at construction sites throughout the country. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice. Following is the revised edition of the Decalogue, calculated for this meridian. Thou shalt no God but me adore: 'Twere too expensive to have more. No images nor idols make For Robert Ingersoll to break. Take not God's name in vain; select A time when it will have effect. Work not on Sabbath days at all, But go to see the teams play ball. Honor thy parents. That creates For life insurance lower rates. Kill not, abet not those who kill; Thou shalt not pay thy butcher's bill. Kiss not thy neighbor's wife, unless Thine own thy neighbor doth caress Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete Successfully in business. Cheat. Bear not false witness -- that is low -- But "hear 'tis rumored so and so." Cover thou naught that thou hast not By hook or crook, or somehow, got. G.J. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Linda Fairstein | Long before I went to law school, and I started by doing a nonfiction book about the reforms and the work we had done, but this was a dream I'd had. And so, I started doing the fiction. This is the fifth book in the series. |
Marlo Thomas | Really. It would be very hard to do in a series, I think, week after week if you didn't like each other. I think that would be quite difficult. |
Robert F. Kennedy | I was asked down there by a number of groups. I'm an attorney for the Natural Resource Defense Council and Water Keeper and I actually represent them in a series of environment lawsuits in, on Vieques. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | On our side we can appeal to a series of achievements which have given new luster to the American arms. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Within the past week unmistakable evidence had established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | My term of office has been marked by a series of challenges, both at home and throughout the world. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | During the last decade our Nation has withstood a series of economic shocks unprecedented in peacetime. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The last decade has seen a series of recessions. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Series" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 99.93% of the time. "Series" is used about 14,343 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 99.93% | 14,333 | 644 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.04% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.03% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14,343 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "series": a series of mistakes ♦ actinide series ♦ alkane series ♦ alternating series ♦ ascending series ♦ case series ♦ clinical series ♦ clipped time series ♦ connect in series ♦ Converging series ♦ crime series ♦ decomposition of time series ♦ Decreasing series ♦ Descending series ♦ Divergent series ♦ Diverging series ♦ drama series ♦ electrochemical series ♦ electromotive force series ♦ electromotive series ♦ equivalent series inductance ♦ Ethylene series ♦ Exponential series ♦ fall drop in series ♦ Fat series ♦ Fatty series ♦ Fibonacci series ♦ form a series ♦ Fourier series ♦ full fall in series ♦ geometric series ♦ gi series ♦ Harmonic series ♦ harmonic series of sounds ♦ in series ♦ Indeterminate series ♦ Interscedent series ♦ Interscendent series ♦ lanthanide series ♦ Lower GI Series ♦ map series ♦ Mediterranean series ♦ methane series ♦ ordered series ♦ paraffin little affinity series ♦ paraffin series ♦ Phanerite series ♦ power series ♦ rainbow series ♦ recurring series ♦ reversion of series ♦ series 7 ♦ series 7 license ♦ series battery ♦ series casting ♦ series circuit ♦ series connection ♦ series dynamo ♦ series elements ♦ series motor ♦ series of targets ♦ series production ♦ series T ♦ series turns ♦ series winding ♦ the Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed ♦ thorium series ♦ time series ♦ To revert a series ♦ type B series ♦ Upper GI Series ♦ world series. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "series": series-a, series-based, series-clinching, series-connected, series-current, series-derived, series-inserted, series-pass, series-seriation, series-timetabled, series-voltage, series-winning, Series-wound. | |
Ending with "series": c-series, h-series, k-series, l-series, mini-series, r-series, sub-series, time-series, t-series, u-series. | |
Containing "series": R-series-based, R-series-to-alpha. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
college world series | 9,523 | college world series ticket | 217 |
absolut series | 2,562 | absolute series | 212 |
world series | 1,139 | bmw 6 series | 191 |
baseball college world series | 764 | adult series | 185 |
series 7 | 716 | highlander the series | 184 |
dogfart series | 652 | baseball world series | 181 |
2003 college world series | 599 | tvb series | 181 |
world series ticket | 588 | thumbnail series | 178 |
adult series.com | 587 | series 7 exam | 175 |
world series of poker | 532 | tv series | 168 |
2004 bmw 5 series | 443 | new bmw 5 series | 165 |
series | 391 | bmw 7 series | 163 |
free pic series | 378 | series ee bond | 161 |
ncaa college world series | 340 | baseball series super | 160 |
left behind series | 317 | mature series | 159 |
little league world series | 315 | jag tv series | 156 |
