Serial
# Serial

Serial may refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### 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
