the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Series
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists.
(2):
(n.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
(3):
(n.) A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
(4):
(n.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
(5):
(n.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.
(6):
(n.) A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; - opposed to parallel. The parts so arranged are said to be in series.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Series'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/series.html. 1828.
