What's the difference between installment and serial?

Installment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of installing; installation.
  • (n.) The seat in which one is placed.
  • (n.) A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times being often definitely stipulated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (2) Ultrasound diagnosis could be aided by transabdominal amnio-infusion and, if necessary, fetal intraperitoneal saline installation.
  • (3) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
  • (4) Long-term: The defeat of Isis is a political shaping exercise – you find moderate Sunni leaders, empower and install them in Syria and Iraq.
  • (5) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
  • (6) Matthew Fuller, 25, Rueben Barnes, 16, and Mitchell Sweeney, 22, died from electrocution and Marcus Wilson, 19, died after installing insulation batts in extreme heat.
  • (7) Already in 2014, Proofpoint found a 650% increase in social media spam compared to 2013, and 99% of malicious URLs in inappropriate content led to malware installation or credential phishing sites,” explains the company.
  • (8) Sixty-three per cent of the implants were operated in immediately after tooth extraction, whereas the rest were installed in a healed bony alveolar ridge.
  • (9) KR: She was truly in a conundrum because without the app, she felt too worthless to try and fix it by installing an update.
  • (10) By installation of a warm water rotating pump type USp 20-KMR and the forming of a by-pass in the recirculation we could produce the underpressure necessary for the capillary dialysis.
  • (11) In comparing the risks and benefits of the two methods we have concluded that the application of a high electric field offers less risks to people in the working area than the installation of a radioactive source.
  • (12) There is good evidence in favor of the use of oxygen savers in patients with portable oxygen, but not for their use in conjunction with fixed oxygen installations in the home.
  • (13) The impulse installment of chemoluminescence increased during the time of storage of the ejaculate.
  • (14) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
  • (15) The care home provider is considering whether to install visible CCTV cameras in all of its care and nursing homes, she added.
  • (16) The killings set the stage for the departure of former president Viktor Yanukovych, the installation of the new government, the Russian incursion in Crimea and Ukraine's current crisis.
  • (17) By taking into account the expected price movements, it is predicted that a hospital wide PACS may allow enough savings to pay itself back, when installed near the turn of the century.
  • (18) But data privacy regulations stop the police from installing cameras in public spaces that transmit images in real time.
  • (19) We installed electromagnetic flow transducers and pressure tubes under anesthesia to monitor right coronary blood flow, cardiac output, central aortic blood pressure, and right ventribular pressure.
  • (20) On 12 September 1980, the head of the military, Kenan Evren, sent tanks rolling through the streets of the Turkish capital and installed a ruthless military government.

Serial


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to rows.
  • (n.) A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
  • (2) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
  • (3) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
  • (4) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
  • (5) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
  • (6) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
  • (7) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
  • (8) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
  • (9) Serial measurements demonstrated a good correlation between enolase and NSE serum levels and the progression of the disease.
  • (10) Serial antepartum platelet alloantibody quantitation by an enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay revealed rising antibody titers during advancing gestation.
  • (11) The serial changes in EF during exercise was divided into 5 types, including continuous increase (type A), initial increase but return to the baseline (type B), no change (type C), initial increase but later decrease below the baseline (type D), and continuous decrease (type E).
  • (12) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
  • (13) The lack of tumor specificity of sialyl Lewis-Xi antigen limits its diagnostic value for gynecologic malignancies, but serial measurement of this antigen may be useful in evaluating therapy and monitoring patients.
  • (14) Acute isovolemic anemia was produced in anesthetized chickens by serial exchanges of 6% dextran 70 equal to 1% of body weight to quantitate cardiovascular and metabolic parameters.
  • (15) The cells have been maintained through 23 serial passages, and the modal number of chromosomes was calculated to be 55.
  • (16) In 5 of the 7 patients with an initially abnormal pituitary fossa, serial radiological studies revealed remodelling in 3.
  • (17) Using serial-sectioning techniques for conventional transmission and high-voltage electron microscopy, we characterized the ultrastructural features and synaptic contacts of the sensory cell in tentacles of Hydra.
  • (18) Special techniques such as serial macroscopic sectioning (SMS) or immunohistochemical staining (IH) improve the detection rate of micrometastases but this detection is of value only if it improves the prediction of recurrence and survival.
  • (19) Liver cells, however, cultured in this way, can also be used for experiments in the early stage of serial cultivation.
  • (20) Serial sections from over a hundred such structures show that these are tubular structures and that the 'test-tube and ring-shaped' forms described in the literature are no more than profiles one expects to see when a tubular structure is sectioned.