actinide series - (chemistry) a series from actinium to lawrencium of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers

chain, concatenation - a series of things depending on each other as if linked together; "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances"

course, line - a connected series of events or actions or developments; "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"

cycle - a series of poems or songs on the same theme; "schubert's song cycles"

electrochemical series, electromotive force series, electromotive series - a serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions; the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series

hierarchy - a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"

ordering, ordination, order - logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"

nexus - a connected series or group

patterned advance, progression - a series with a definite pattern of advance

blizzard, rash - a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences; "a rash of bank robberies"; "a blizzard of lawsuits"

sequence - serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"

train, string - a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding; "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought"

succession - a group of people or things arranged or following in order; "a succession of stalls offering soft drinks"; "a succession of failures"

wave train - a succession of waves spaced at regular intervals

helium group - the series of inert gases

actinide series - a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium

lanthanide series - the rare-earth elements with atomic numbers 57 through 71; having properties similar to lanthanum

broadcast, programme, program - a radio or television show; "did you see his program last night?"

instalment, installment, episode - a part of a broadcast serial

soap opera - a serialized program usually dealing with sentimentalized family matters that is broadcast on radio or television (frequently sponsored by a company advertising soap products)

tetralogy - a series of four related works (plays or operas or novels)

instalment, installment - a part of a published serial

periodical - a publication that appears at fixed intervals

monthly - a periodical that is published every month

bimonthly - a periodical that is published bimonthly

quarterly - a periodical that is published every quarter

weekly - a periodical that is published every week

biweekly - a periodical that is published biweekly

issue, number - one of a series published periodically; "she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waitingroom"

athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

contest, competition - an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

home stand - a series of successive games played at a team's home field or court

World Series - series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship; "we watched the World Series on TV"

group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

multinomial, polynomial - a mathematical expression that is the sum of a number of terms

power series - the sum of terms containing successively higher integral powers of a variable

convergency, convergence - the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit

divergency, divergence - an infinite series that has no limit

geometric series - a geometric progression written as a sum

Fourier series - the sum of a series of trigonometric expressions; used in the analysis of periodic functions

math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement

exponential series - a series derived from the expansion of an exponential expression

electronics - the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices

connection, connexion, connectedness - a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it); "there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare"