serialize

English

Alternative forms

• serialise (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English serial

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English serialize

From serial + -ize.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹiəlaɪz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪəɹiəlaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: se‧ri‧al‧ize

Verb

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

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

Synonyms

• marshal

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “computing”): deserialize

Derived terms

• reserialize
• serializability
• serializable
• serializer
• unserialize

Related terms

• serial
• serialization

Translations

write entertainment as a sequence of shorter works

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 連載 / 连载 (zh) (liánzǎi)

• Spanish: serializar (es), seriar (es)

convert an object into a byte sequence that can be converted back

• Catalan: serialitzar
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 序列化 (xùlièhuà)

• Finnish: sarjallistaa
• French: sérialiser (fr)
• German: serialisieren (de)
• Spanish: serializar (es), seriar (es)

Anagrams

• Israelize