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serialise

serialise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of serialize.

Meaning of serialize

Verb

serialize (third-person singular simple present serializes, present participle serializing, simple past and past participle serialized)

  1. (transitive) To write a television program, novel, or other form of entertainment as a sequence of shorter works with a common story.
  2. (transitive) To publish (a book, play, etc.) in regular instalments, e.g. in a magazine.
  3. (transitive) To convert an object into a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties.

Forms of serialise

third-person singular presentserialises
present participleserialising
past participleserialised
pastserialised

Origin of serialise

From serial + -ise.

Words formed from serialise

Questions about serialise

What is serialise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Serialise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of serialize.

Words near serialise in the dictionary

  1. serialed
  2. serialing
  3. serialisable
  4. serialisation
  5. serialisations
  6. serialise
  7. serialised
  8. serialises
  9. serialising
  10. serialism
  11. serialisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: serialise (page history and authors); serialize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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