serial

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Of, forming, or arranged in a series.
• adjective Published or produced in installments, as a novel or television drama.
• adjective Relating to such publication or production.
• adjective Relating to or engaging in a series of similar acts or behaviors.
• adjective Music Relating to or based on a row of tones, especially the 12 pitches of the chromatic scale.
• adjective Of or relating to the sequential transmission of all the bits of a byte over one wire.
• adjective Of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations.
• noun A literary or dramatic work published or produced in installments.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Arranged or disposed in a series, rank, or row, as several like things set one after another; placed seriatim; successive, as beads on a string. Also seriate.
• Characterized by or exhibiting serial arrangement; having the nature or quality of a series; of or pertaining to series: as, serial homology (see homology).
• Published at regularly recurring or successive times; periodical, as a publication; pertaining to a serial.
• noun A tale or other composition published in successive numbers of a periodical.
• noun A work or publication issued in successive numbers; a periodical.

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

• noun A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.
• adjective Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers.
• adjective (Bot.) Of or pertaining to rows.
• adjective (Biol.) See under Homology.
• adjective (Biol.) See under Symmetry.

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

• adjective Having to do with or arranged in a series.
• adjective Published or produced in installments.
• noun A work, as a work of fiction, published in installments, often numbered and without a specified end.
• noun computing, slang A serial number required to activate software.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a periodical that appears at scheduled times
• adjective pertaining to or composed in serial technique
• adjective in regular succession without gaps
• noun a serialized set of programs
• adjective of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations
• adjective pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series