subseries
subseries Lexical Profile
subseries Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A series that forms a distinct part or subdivision of a larger series, especially in archival organization, publishing, or television.
"The university archive organized the senator's correspondence into several chronological subseries."
In mathematics, an infinite series formed by selecting a subsequence of terms from a given infinite series.
"If a series of positive terms converges, then every subseries of it also converges to a finite sum."
In botanical taxonomy, a rank of classification subordinate to a series and above a species.
"Taxonomists grouped the closely related mountain wildflowers into a separate subseries based on their seed structure."
Word Nuance & Usage
Like its root word 'series', 'subseries' has an identical singular and plural form, taking a singular verb when referring to one subdivision and a plural verb when referring to multiple subdivisions.