Serial

Serial may refer to:

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 the 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