1. to publish or broadcast a story in separate parts over a period of time
Usage: British spelling
2. to convert data into a format that can be stored or transmitted and later reconstructed
Usage: computing

Examples

• The magazine will serialise the novel over twelve monthly issues.
• Dickens often serialised his novels in periodicals before publishing them as books.
• The newspaper serialised her memoir throughout the summer.
• The software serialises the data before sending it over the network.
• You need to serialise the object to save it to the database.
• The program can serialise complex data structures into XML format.