Serial

Serial may refer to the presentation of works in sequential segments, e.g.:

• Serial (publishing): the publication of a journal in separate parts under the same title. Example: Nature (journal).
• Serial (literature) often a work of narrative fiction published in sequential installments.
• 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
• Serialism, in music