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Serial vs Monograph - What's the difference?

serial | monograph |

As nouns the difference between serial and monograph

is that serial is a work, as a work of fiction, published in installments, often numbered and without a specified end while monograph is a scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.

As an adjective serial

is having to do with or arranged in a series.

As a verb monograph is

to write a monograph on (a subject).

serial

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having to do with or arranged in a series.
    • The had a string of victims across seven states.
    He was a serial entrepreneur, always coming up with a new way to make cash.
  • Published or produced in installments.

    • Synonyms

    * (arranged in a series) sequential

    Derived terms

    * serially * serial comma * serial killer * serial music * serialize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A work, as a work of fiction, published in installments, often numbered and without a specified end.
  • (computing, slang) A serial number required to activate software.
    • Go to these sites for serials , cracks and keygens.

    See also

    * twelve tone technique

    Related terms

    * seriate * seriatim * seriation * series

    References

    * DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 6. * * Google books: uses of serial

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    monograph

    English

    (wikipedia monograph)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
    • I had never given much thought to the role of darkness in ordinary human affairs until I read a monograph prepared by John Staudenmaier, a historian of technology and a Jesuit priest, for a recent conference at MIT.'' Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", ''The Atlantic Monthly , March 1996, Volume 277, No. 3, pp. 22-24.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To write a monograph on (a subject).
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 26, author=Charles Isherwood, title=A Long Wait for Another Shot at Broadway, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It is among the most studied, monographed , celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century. }}

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