[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.", "Library Science.a publication in any medium issued in successive parts bearing numerical or chronological designation and intended to be continued indefinitely."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["published in or successive parts:a serial story.", "pertaining to such publication.", "pertaining to, arranged in, or consisting of a series.", "occurring in a series rather than simultaneously:serial marriage; serial murders.", "effecting or producing a series of similar actions:The police think a serial killer is responsible for five homicides in this city last month.", "Computers.of or relating to the apparent or actual performance of data-processing operations one at a time ( parallel ).of or relating to the transmission or processing of each part of a whole in sequence, as each bit of a byte or each byte of a computer word ( parallel ).", "of or relating to the apparent or actual performance of data-processing operations one at a time ( parallel ).", "of or relating to the transmission or processing of each part of a whole in sequence, as each bit of a byte or each byte of a computer word ( parallel ).", "Music.of, relating to, or composed in serial technique."]}]