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                             Introduction                             
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Serial may refer to:


 The presentation of works in sequential segments 
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* 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             
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* 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                       
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* 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                              
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* Serial code or serial number
* Serial comma
* Serial killer


                               See also                               
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* Cereal (disambiguation) (a homophone)
* Serialism (philosophy)
* Serialism, in music
* Series (disambiguation)


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