serialised

Published in installments

Serialised is the British spelling of serialized.

To serialise a story is to publish or broadcast it in sequential installments: The novel was serialised in a weekly magazine before appearing as a book.

In computing, to serialise data is to convert it into a format that can be stored or transmitted and later reconstructed.

narrative

storytelling

Recounting events aloud

cliffhangerSuspenseful unresolved ending
arcCurved line segment
subplotSubordinate narrative strand

continuity · backstory · foreshadowing · plotline · twist · saga · chronicle · pulp · Dickensian · suspense

broadcast

episodes

Distinct parts of a series

installmentsPeriodic partial payments
chaptersMain divisions of text
partsIndividual elements of whole

segments · transmission · syndication · radio · television · podcast · airwaves · network · weekly · nightly

sequential

incremental

Proceeding by small additions

stepwiseProceeding by degrees
gradualDeveloping slowly over time
phasedIntroduced or removed incrementally

systematic · cumulative · chronological · iterative · progressive · ordered · numbered · successive · consecutive · linear

data

JSON

Lightweight data interchange format

XMLStructured data markup language
binaryConsisting of two parts
encodingConverting data to format

decoding · marshalling · parsing · object · string · format · protocol · payload · schema · pickle

Opposites

release format

serialiseddropped

Let fall downward

one-shot

structural organization

serialisedstandalone

Complete without attachments

self-contained · complete · unified · whole · undivided

data processing

serialisedparallel

Equidistant at all points

concurrent · simultaneous · asynchronous · multithreaded · distributed

Family

serialise, serialisation, serialising, serialisations

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