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)