Serendipity is used as a sociological method in Anselm L. Strauss ' and Barney G. Glaser's Grounded Theory, building on ideas by sociologist Robert K. Merton, who in Social Theory and Social Structure ( 1949 ) referred to the " serendipity pattern " as the fairly common experience of observing an unanticipated, anomalous and strategic datum which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory or for extending an existing theory.

Serendipity is also used in Final Fantasy XIII-2 as a location.

* Mornington Crescent is used by Robert Rankin in many of his novels as the home of the Ministry of Serendipity, a fictional agency whose main activity is to ensure the British Empire rules the globe, via dealings with alien activity and suchlike, the top secret nature of the ministry being the main reason why the station was only open on weekdays and closed for " repairs " for much of the 1990s.

Rincewind is the Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography, ( he also holds the Chair of Experimental Serendipity, the Reader in Slood Dynamics, the Fretwork Teacher, the Chair for the Public Misunderstanding of Magic, the Professor of Virtual Anthropology, the Lecturer in Approximate Accuracy, and the Health and Safety Officer ).

He is the king who receives the Three Princes of Serendip in the tale that gave rise to the word Serendipity.

Probably the largest campus-wide event of the year, besides Homecoming, is " Serendipity ", held annually in the spring.

There is also an implementation of wireless dating called Serendipity being pioneered by MIT's Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass.

Some weblog software, such as Movable Type, Serendipity, WordPress, and Telligent Community, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published.

At a price of 1, 000 U. S. dollars, the most expensive ice cream sundae is the Serendipity Golden Opulence Sundae, sold by Serendipity 3 restaurant in New York City.

Serendipity 3 is a popular restaurant in the Upper East Side of Manhattan founded by Stephen Bruce in 1954.

Serendipity is an accidental lucky discovery.

While he is in Okinawa the police crack down on the cult and arrest His Serendipity.

Quasar is shocked by this, since he believes that His Serendipity has the power to teleport himself and walk through solid walls.

One of the callers to the radio shows is Quasar from part 1, who claims that the Zookeeper is the reincarnation of His Serendipity.

In fact, he is tracing his call, and within minutes has located and destroyed His Serendipity.

Serendipity is a 2001 romantic comedy, starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.

They feel a mutual attraction, and despite the fact that each is involved in other relationships, they end up eating ice cream at Serendipity 3 together, and soon exchange goodbyes.

It is called Serendipity on the episode summaries, but was called Tranquility in the episode itself.

Serendipity is a series of children's books about animals and other creatures.

Jay and Silent Bob fill out their roles as prophets: they predict the arrival of Rufus ( Chris Rock ), the thirteenth apostle, who was left out of the Bible because he was black ; they lead the others to former muse Serendipity ( Salma Hayek ); they procure the divine instrument that will stop Azrael ; Jay reveals the location of God (" John Doe Jersey "); and ultimately, though inadvertently, they provide Bethany with the solution to preventing Armageddon.

In 1968, the Institute of Contemporary Arts ( ICA ) in London hosted one of the most influential early exhibitions of computer art-Cybernetic Serendipity.

During film production, one of the rental houses, Serendipity, the north-easternmost house in Rodanthe, was transformed into the fictional Inn at Rodanthe.

Tim Cavendish has stacks of unsold books by a certain " Serendipity ", the cult-leader of Quasar in part one.

Serendipity means a " happy accident " or " pleasant surprise "; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it.

* Programming for Serendipity – AAAI Technical Report FS-02-01

* Salma Hayek as Serendipity, a muse who got a body on Earth so she could get credit for her work.

** Bob Florence for Serendipity 18

** Bob Florence for Serendipity

Hickey also wrote songs for other artists, including " The Millionaire " for Jackie Wilson, " A Little Bird Told Me So " for LaVern Baker, and " Don't Let the Rain Come Down ", which was a US top ten hit for the Serendipity Singers.

He believes himself to be able to converse telepathically with ' His Serendipity ', leader of the cult, and regards ordinary people with disgust, waiting for an apocalyptic moment — a comet's prophesied collision with earth — in which they will be destroyed.

After additional research, Jonathan and Dean meet an artist who recalls that Sara lived with him for a short time after being referred by a placement company, which he identifies as being located in a shop next to Serendipity 3.

After some of the biggest commercial failures of all time, Serendipity marked the first of several box-office successes for Chelsom, peaking in 2009 with Hannah Montana: The Movie.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone rated the film two out of four stars, calling it " a lot like a lot of other romantic comedies that make two lovers of friends ( When Harry Met Sally, Serendipity ) and a lot not like the two witty and wise Richard Linklater movies-Before Sunrise and Before Sunset-that span the relationship between Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy for nearly a decade and leave you wanting more.

The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.

We know that much is made of the multiplicity and ambiguity of the identities that cluster around the key symbol of the Jew.

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

This is the key fact emerging from Sunday's national election.

But the key revelation is not new.

A romantic is one who thinks the world is divinely inspired and all he has to do is find the right key, and then divine justice and altruism will appear.

The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.

otherwise, you'll have to spend a few minutes to either attach a suitable spring clip somewhere on the press head or fit the key to a length of light chain and fasten to the bottom of the motor mount so that the key is out of the way when not in use.

The key to effective marketing is wrapped up in defining your company's marketing problems realistically.

A new low capacity meter is the key that unlocks the situation at Oakwood Heights.

The phrasing is irregular, and the abrupt key changes have a primitive forcefulness.

Rangoni's first entrance is a musical shock, a sudden open fifth in a key totally unrelated to what has preceded it.

The key to the world of geology is change ; ;

I submit that this is the key problem of international relations, that it always has been, that it always will be.

The soldiers are fighting and the Americans are helping, he said, but in the fight against the Pathet Lao the key factor is the villager himself.

The key to Protestant development, therefore, is economic integration of the nucleus of the congregation.

I said `` Darn it, that's the automatic signal that shows when the ignition key is on.

And the key to the suite is still missing ''.

Mr. Schaefer also recommended that the snow emergency route plan, under which parking is banned on key streets and cars are required to use snow tires or chains on them, should be `` strictly enforced ''.

`` Convenience is therefore the key to the housing market today.

A publicity release from Oregon Physicians Service, of which Harvey is president, quoted him as saying the welfare office move to Salem, instead of `` crippling '' the agency, had provided an avenue to correct administrative weaknesses, with the key being improved communications between F & A and the commission staff.

Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.