Serial may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media The presentation of works in sequential segments Serial (literature), serialised literature in print Serial (publishing), periodical publications and newspapers Serial (radio and television), series of radio and television programs that rely on a continuing plot Serial film, a series of short subjects, with a continuing story, originally shown in theaters, in conjunction with feature films, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s Indian serial, a type of Indian television program Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media Serial (1980 film), based on McFadden's novel, starring Martin Mull and Tuesday Weld Serial (podcast), a podcast spinoff of the radio series This American Life The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, a 1977 novel by Cyra McFadden Computing and technology SerDes, a Serializer/Deserializer (pronounced sir-deez) Serial ATA Serial attached SCSI Serial bus, e.g., I²C 1-Wire Serial Peripheral Interface Bus (SPI) UNI/O Serial cable, a cable used to transfer information between two devices using a serial communication protocol Serial computer, a computer typified by its bit-serial architecture Bit-serial architecture, a 1-bit processor or CPU architecture with a 1-bit instruction set and microarchitecture Serial communication, the process of sending data one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus Asynchronous serial communication Synchronous serial communication Serial port Serial SCSI, serial SCSI disk-drives Universal Serial Bus, also known as USB Other uses Serial code or serial number Serial comma Serial killer Serial relation in mathematics, a binary relation R that relates every x to some y See also Cereal (disambiguation) (a homophone) Serialism (philosophy) Serialism, in music Series (disambiguation)