Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Succession or sequence; the quality of a series; the condition of being serial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of succession in a series; sequence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The process of occurring in a sequential manner; a serial arrangement; a succession.

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Examples

  • I, like most residents, maneuver around the city without a mental aerial map without, even, a sense of North, South, East and West; instead, I get around with images of seriality, that is, routes that I can trace by imagining the flow of adjoining objects on particular pathways.

    swoonrocket jms 2006

  • She read from a pair of long sequences some of the poems featured in a recent issue of Try, the bi-weekly magazine Sara Larsen co-edits, and as I listened I imagined I heard all kinds of "Millsisms," the attention to lyric detail, the kind of seriality I associate with Leslie Scalapino and Laura Moriarty, and an insistent strain of observing.

    Degraded Dodie Bellamy 2008

  • She read from a pair of long sequences some of the poems featured in a recent issue of Try, the bi-weekly magazine Sara Larsen co-edits, and as I listened I imagined I heard all kinds of "Millsisms," the attention to lyric detail, the kind of seriality I associate with Leslie Scalapino and Laura Moriarty, and an insistent strain of observing.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008

  • A sort of multiple piece of art that sums formal seriality with aestethic uniqueness.

    Really Creative Fireplaces Designs by Anne Colombo 2009

  • His initial artistic innovation lay in the demonstration that seriality -- simple repetition -- transforms the appearances and meanings of familiar objects.

    David Galenson: Arman and the Art of the Object David Galenson 2011

  • His initial artistic innovation lay in the demonstration that seriality -- simple repetition -- transforms the appearances and meanings of familiar objects.

    David Galenson: Arman and the Art of the Object David Galenson 2011

  • Other kinds of user-produced YouTube content are far less legible in the lexicon of television, lacking a familiar structure, production values, and even seriality.

    Dan Schiller: Is YouTube the Successor to Television -- Or to LIFE Magazine? 2010

  • You can't suggest better works similar to WoT if these works don't use seriality.

    Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 8: The Path of Daggers (1998) Adam Roberts 2010

  • The aspect I wanted to underline is the seriality.

    Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 8: The Path of Daggers (1998) Adam Roberts 2010

  • Other kinds of user-produced YouTube content are far less legible in the lexicon of television, lacking a familiar structure, production values, and even seriality.

    Is YouTube the Successor to Television -- Or to LIFE Magazine? Dan Schiller 2010

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