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Seri World
Seri World (세리월드) is a leisure theme park in Seogwipo on Jeju Island, South Korea, offering go-kart racing, horseback riding, a camellia maze, and Euro Bungee.
Seri World Miro Park
Seri World Miro Park (세리월드 미로공원) is a 5,000 m² camellia hedge maze of 3,500 trees in the Seri World leisure complex, Beophwan-dong, Seogwipo, Jeju, next to Seogwipo World Cup Stadium, with an evening Romantic Maze Light Garden.
Seria Oil Field
The Seria Oil Field is Brunei's oldest and largest oil field, an onshore coastal field in Belait District discovered in 1929 by the S-1 well.
Serial (Bad) Weddings
Serial (Bad) Weddings, released in France as Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu ?, is a 2014 French comedy directed by Philippe de Chauveron.
Serial (Bad) Weddings 2
Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 is a 2019 French comedy directed by Philippe de Chauveron, sequel to the 2014 hit, starring Christian Clavier and Chantal Lauby.
Serial (literature)
Serial (literature), or serialised fiction: a single novel published in successive installments (numbers, parts, fascicles) in newspapers or magazines, from Dickens's Pickwick Papers (1836–37) through Victorian part-issue, syndication, and modern web serial platforms.
Serial (podcast)
Serial is an American investigative podcast from This American Life, created by Julie Snyder, Ira Glass, and host Sarah Koenig. Season One (2014), on the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and Adnan Syed's conviction, was the first podcast to reach five million downloads and to win a Peabody Award.
Serial (radio and television)
Serial (radio and television): a continuing narrative format, distinct from episodic series and anthologies, born from Victorian serialized fiction, dominant in 1930s radio soap operas, and reshaped by 1990s narrative complexity and streaming.
Serial Attached SCSI
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a point-to-point serial storage interface carrying SCSI commands between host controllers and drives, approved as the successor to parallel SCSI in 2003.
Serial block-face electron microscopy
Serial block-face electron microscopy (SBEM, also SBF-SEM) is a volume electron microscopy method that repeatedly images and slices resin-embedded tissue, producing 3D datasets of cellular ultrastructure.
Serial casting
Serial casting is a rehabilitation treatment in which successive casts progressively stretch a joint to increase range of motion, used mainly for contractures in cerebral palsy and spasticity.
Serial comma
The serial comma, also called the Oxford, Harvard, or series comma, is the comma before the final "and" or "or" in lists of three or more items; required by Chicago, APA, and MLA, omitted by AP, and famed for the Oakhurst Dairy lawsuit.
Serial communication
Serial communication, also called serial transmission, transfers digital data one bit at a time over a single path, as in UART, SPI, I2C, and RS-485 links.
Serial crystallography
Serial crystallography is a diffraction method that records one X-ray still per tiny protein crystal, merging thousands of patterns into a dataset while limiting radiation damage.
Serial digital interface
The serial digital interface (SDI) is a family of SMPTE standards carrying uncompressed digital video, embedded audio, and ancillary data over a single coaxial cable.
Serial dilution
Serial dilution is a laboratory technique in which each dilution is made from the previous one, so concentration falls by a constant factor at each step.
Serial Experiments Lain (シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン)
Serial Experiments Lain (シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン) is a 1998 13-episode TV anime directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura, written by Chiaki J. Konaka, with character designs by Yoshitoshi ABe, about girl Lain Iwakura and the Wired; also a 1998 PlayStation game.
Serial Extraction
Serial extraction (guidance of eruption) is an interceptive orthodontic procedure: planned sequential extraction of deciduous then first premolar teeth in mixed dentition to relieve severe arch crowding, requiring about 5 years of supervision and later fixed appliances.
Serial femtosecond crystallography
Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) is an X-ray crystallography method that uses femtosecond pulses from an X-ray free-electron laser to record damage-free diffraction patterns from nanocrystals, first demonstrated in 2009.
Serial film
Serial film, or chapter play: a film divided into episodes shown in weekly installments, often ending in cliffhangers. Ran 1912–1956; notable titles include The Perils of Pauline (1914) and Flash Gordon (1936).
Serial killer
Serial killer: a person who unlawfully kills two or more victims in separate events, per the FBI's 2005 definition. Formerly required three or more killings with a cooling-off period; term coined amid 1970s FBI research; rare, under one percent of murders.
Serial learning
Serial learning is a classic verbal memory paradigm, dating to Hermann Ebbinghaus's 1885 work, in which participants must recall a studied list in its exact presented order.
Serial manipulator
A serial manipulator is a robotic arm built as an open chain of links and joints, ending in a gripper or tool, with a large workspace.
Serial mediation analysis
Serial mediation analysis is a statistical method testing whether an effect passes through two or more mediators in a specified causal order, such as X → M1 → M2 → Y.
Serial Mom
Serial Mom is John Waters' 1994 black comedy starring Kathleen Turner as Beverly Sutphin, a Baltimore housewife who murders people over etiquette slights and becomes a celebrity at her trial; released by Savoy Pictures, it flopped theatrically but became a cult classic.
Serial number
A serial number is an identifier assigned to one individual unit of a product and kept with it for its lifetime, unlike a part or batch number.
Serial passage
Serial passage is a bench technique that repeatedly transfers cells or microbes into fresh environments, selecting variants adapted to them, which often means loss of virulence.
Serial Peripheral Interface
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) is a synchronous, full-duplex serial bus protocol developed by Motorola in the 1980s, widely used to connect sensors, memory, and displays in embedded systems.
Serial port
A serial port, also known as a COM port, is a computer interface that transfers data one bit at a time, typically over an RS-232 connection.
Serial presence detect
Serial presence detect (SPD) is a standardized block of data in an EEPROM on a DRAM memory module, read by the BIOS at startup to configure memory.