Definition of "serializer"

serializer

noun
plural serializers
1. A publication in which a work is serialized.
  Quotations
  The Saturday Evening Post, serializer of six novels by David Graham Phillips, climbed to one million circulation by 1910.
  1986, Thomas C. Leonard, The Power of the Press, page 215
2. An electronic device that converts a parallel stream of data into serial format.
3. (computing) A software component that serializes data.