Sē'rĭēs, n.
(sē'rēz, or sē/rĭ-ēz, 89) (Synop., § 130), n. [Lat. series, from serere, sertum, to join or bind together; Fr. série, It. & Sp. serie.]
Sense 1. A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; a line or row of things; as, a series of calamitous events.
During some years his life was a series of triumphs. Macaulay.
Sense 2. (Nat. Hist.) An order or subdivision of some class of natural bodies.
Sense 3. (Math.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding, by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.