Serial

Serial may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

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

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

Serial code or serial number
Serial comma
Serial killer
Serial relation in mathematics, a binary relation R that relates every x to some y