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sergiyev posad
nounVery Low
/ˌsɜːɡɪjɛf pəˈsɑːd/A historic city in Russia, located northeast of Moscow, famous as the site of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius monastery.
seri
adjectivenounVery Low
/ˈsɛri/A member of an Indigenous people of northwestern Mexico; their language.
serial
adjectivenounB2
/ˈsɪə.ri.əl/A story or set of events presented or occurring in a regular sequence of parts.
serial correlation
nounC2
/ˈsɪə.ri.əl ˌkɒr.əˈleɪ.ʃən/In statistics and time series analysis, the correlation between a variable's current value and its own past values.
serial killer
nounC1
/ˈsɪə.ri.əl ˈkɪl.ər/A person who murders three or more people over a period of time, with a psychological cooling-off period between the murders.
serial monogamy
nounC1
/ˈsɪə.ri.əl məˈnɒɡ.ə.mi/A relationship pattern where a person has a series of exclusive, committed romantic partnerships, one after another.
serial number
nounC1
/ˈsɪə.ri.əl ˈnʌm.bər/A unique, sequential code assigned to an individual item (like a product, device, or document) for identification.
serial port
nounLow
/ˈsɪə.ri.əl pɔːt/A physical interface on a computer that transmits data one bit at a time sequentially.
serial rights
plural-nounC2
/ˈsɪə.ri.əl ˌraɪts/The legal right to publish a literary work in successive parts in newspapers, magazines, or journals before or after its publication as a complete book.
serialism
nounC2
/ˈsɪə.ri.ə.lɪ.zəm/A method of musical composition using a fixed series of notes, rhythms, or other musical elements in a predetermined order (a series), which governs the structure of the entire piece.
serialize
verbverb-transitiveB2/C1
/ˈsɪə.ri.ə.laɪz/To arrange or process something in a series or sequence, especially to convert data into a format suitable for storage or transmission.
seriation
nounC1/C2
/ˌsɪərɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/The arrangement of items in a series or sequence, often according to a developmental or chronological order.
sericin
nounC1
/ˈsɛrɪsɪn/A sticky protein substance produced by silkworms that binds the silk threads of the cocoon together.
sericite
nounVery Low
/ˈsɛrɪsʌɪt/A fine-grained, silky, muscovite mica.
serictery
nounVery Low (Obscure Technical Term)
/sɪˈrɪkt(ə)ri/A gland in the larvae of certain insects, especially silkworms, that produces silk.
sericulture
nounlow
/ˈsɛrɪˌkʌltʃə/The cultivation of silkworms for the production of silk.
seriema
nounC1
/ˌsɛrɪˈiːmə/A long-legged, terrestrial bird native to South America, belonging to the family Cariamidae, resembling a cross between a crane and a secretary bird.
series
adjectivenounC1
/ˈsɪə.riːz/A number of similar or related things or events coming one after another.
series comma
nounC2
/ˈsɪə.riːz ˌkɒm.ə/A comma placed immediately before the coordinating conjunction (usually 'and' or 'or') in a list of three or more items.
series resonance
nounC2
/ˈsɪə.riːz ˈrɛz.ən.əns/A condition in an electrical circuit containing inductance, capacitance, and resistance in series, where the inductive and capacitive reactances cancel each other out, resulting in maximum current and minimum impedance at a specific frequency.

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