Noun

(en noun)

Something that is representative of all such things in a group.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)

, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= How algorithms rule the world , passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}

Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan

, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).

* Bible, (w) xiii, 15

For I have given you an example , that ye should do as I have done to you.

* (John Milton)

I gave, thou sayest, the example ; I led the way.

* 1818 , (Mary Shelley), :

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge,

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.

A person punished as a warning to others.

* (William Shakespeare)

Hang him; he'll be made an example .

* Bible, x, 6

Now these things were our examples , to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.

* (William Shakespeare)

Such temperate order in so fierce a cause / Doth want example .

An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.

Noun

(series)

A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

(US, Canada) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

Friends was one of the most successful television series in recent years.

(British) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.

(mathematics) The sum of the terms of a sequence.

(cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

(zoology) An unranked taxon.

(senseid) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.