add. ·noun a parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
2. series ·noun any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
3. series ·noun 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. series ·noun 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.
5. series ·add. ·noun 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.
6. series ·add. ·noun 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.