Serial Explained

Serial may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

The presentation of works in sequential segments

• Serial (literature), serialised literature in print
• Serial (publishing), periodical publications and newspapers
• Serial (radio and television), series of radio and television programs that rely on a continuing plot
• Serial film, a series of short subjects, with a continuing story, originally shown in theaters, in conjunction with feature films, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s
• Indian serial, a type of Indian television program

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Serial (1980 film), based on McFadden's novel, starring Martin Mull and Tuesday Weld
• Serial (podcast), a podcast spinoff of radio series This American Life
• The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, a 1977 novel by Cyra McFadden

Computing and technology

• SerDes, a Serializer/Deserializer (pronounced sir-deez)
• Serial ATA
• Serial attached SCSI
• Serial bus, e.g.,
  • I²C
  • 1-Wire
  • Serial Peripheral Interface Bus (SPI)
  • UNI/O
• Serial cable, a cable used to transfer information between two devices using a serial communication protocol
• Serial computer, a computer typified by its bit-serial architecture
  • Bit-serial architecture, a 1-bit processor or CPU architecture with a 1-bit instruction set and microarchitecture
• Serial communication, the process of sending data one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus
  • Asynchronous serial communication
  • Synchronous serial communication
• Serial port
• Serial SCSI, serial SCSI disk-drives
• Universal Serial Bus, also known as USB

Other uses

• Serial code or serial number
• Serial comma
• Serial killer
• Serial relation in mathematics, a binary relation R that relates every x to some y

See also

• Cereal (disambiguation) (a homophone)
• Serialism (philosophy)
• Serialism, in music
• Series (disambiguation)