Anthology vs. Series — What's the Difference?

In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors.In genre fiction, the term "anthology" typically categorizes collections of shorter works, such as short stories and short novels, by different authors, each featuring unrelated casts of characters and settings, and usually collected into a single volume for publication. Alternatively, it can also be a collection of selected writings (short stories, poems etc.) by one author.Complete collections of works are often called "complete works" or "opera omnia" (Latin equivalent).

A number of objects or events arranged or coming one after the other in succession.

A published collection of poems or other pieces of writing

A set of stamps, coins, or currency issued in a particular period.

A collection of literary pieces, such as poems, short stories, or plays.

Physics & Chemistry A group of objects related by linearly varying successive differences in form or configuration

A miscellany, assortment, or catalog, as of complaints, comments, or ideas

(Mathematics) The sum of a sequentially ordered finite or infinite set of terms.

A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.

(Geology) A group of rock formations closely related in time of origin and distinct as a group from other formations.

(attributive) A work or series containing various stories with no direct relation to one another.

(Grammar) A succession of coordinate elements in a sentence.

(by extension) An assortment of things.

A succession of publications that present an extended narrative, such as a comic book series, or that have similar subjects or similar formats, such as a series of cookbooks.

The study of flowers.

A succession of individual programs presented as parts of a unified whole, such as the set of episodes of a television show or a podcast.

A discourse on flowers.

(Sports) A number of games played by the same two teams, often in succession.

A collection of flowers; a garland.

(Baseball) The World Series.

A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; - particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.

(Linguistics) A set of vowels or diphthongs related by ablaut, as in sing, sang, sung, and song.

A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.

A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

A collection of selected literary passages

(broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

(mathematics) The sequence of partial sums $\backslash sum\_\{i=1\}^n\{a\_i\}$ of a given sequence a_i.

A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

(zoology) An unranked taxon.

(botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.

(commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.

(phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

(electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit, in series.

A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.

Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.

In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists.

An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.

A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; - opposed to parallel. The parts so arranged are said to be in series.

A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.

Similar things placed in order or happening one after another;

A serialized set of programs;

A periodical that appears at scheduled times

(sports) several contests played successively by the same teams;

A group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection;

(mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions

(electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other;