<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.</li><li>Library Science: A publication in any medium issued in successive parts bearing numerical or chronological designation and intended to be continued indefinitely.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Published in installments or successive parts: a serial story.</li><li>Pertaining to such publication.</li><li>Pertaining to, arranged in, or consisting of a series.</li><li>Occurring in a series rather than simultaneously: serial marriage; serial murders.</li><li>Effecting or producing a series of similar actions: The police think a serial killer is responsible for five homicides in this city last month.</li><li>Computers: Of or relating to the apparent or actual performance of data-processing operations one at a time (parallel).</li><li>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).</li><li>Music: Of, relating to, or composed in serial technique.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>