Serial may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
The presentation of works in sequential segments
- Serial (literature), serialised fiction 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 short subject originally shown in theaters in conjunction with feature films, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Indian serials
- 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
See also
- Cereal (disambiguation) (a homophone)
- Serialism (philosophy)
- Serialism, in music
- Series (disambiguation)