" series "

[Noun]  | "se*ries" | \ ˈsir-(ˌ)ēz \

1: a number of things or events of the same class coming one after another in spatial or temporal succession

2: a set of regularly presented television programs each of which is complete in itself

3: the indicated sum of a usually infinite sequence of numbers

Origin: 1618 ;

 Latin, from serere to join, link together; akin to Greek eirein to string together, hormos chain, necklace, and perhaps to Latin sort-, sors lot;

[Noun]  | "alternating series" 

1: a mathematical series in which consecutive terms are alternatively positive and negative

Origin: 1817 ;

[Noun]  | "Fourier series" 

1: an infinite series in which the terms are constants multiplied by sine or cosine functions of integer multiples of the variable and which is used in the analysis of periodic functions

Origin: 1877 ;

 Baron J.B.J. Fourier;

[Noun]  | "geometric series" 

1: a series (such as 1 + x + x2 + x3 + …) whose terms form a geometric progression

Origin: circa 1909 ;

[Noun]  | "harmonic series" 

1: a series of the form ...

Origin: 1866 ;

[Noun]  | "Mac*lau*rin series" | \ mə-ˈklȯr-ən(z)- \

1: a Taylor series that is expanded about the reference point zero and that takes the form ... subject to the conditions holding for a Taylor series—called also Maclaurin's series

Origin: 1881 ;

 Colin Maclaurin †1746 Scottish mathematician;

[Noun]  | "power series" 

1: an infinite series whose terms are successive integral powers of a variable multiplied by constants

Origin: 1884 ;

[Noun]  | "soil series" 

1: a group of soils with similar profiles developed from similar parent materials under comparable climatic and vegetational conditions

Origin: 1905 ;

[Noun]  | "Tay*lor series" | \ ˈtā-lər- \

1: a power series that gives the expansion of a function f (x) in the neighborhood of a point a provided that in the neighborhood the function is continuous, all its derivatives exist, and the series converges to the function in which case it has the form ... where f[n] (a) is the derivative of nth order of f(x) evaluated at a —called also Taylor's series

Origin: 1842 ;

 Brook Taylor †1731 English mathematician;

[Phrase]  | "in series" 

1: in a serial or series arrangement

[Noun]  | "series" 

[Adjective]  | "in series"