title: Serial
text: # 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
  