Singular

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  • adjective. Being only one; individual; lone.
  • adjective. Being the only one of a kind; unique.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Being beyond what is ordinary, especially in being exceptionally good; remarkable.
  • adjective. Strange or unusual.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or being a noun, pronoun, or adjective denoting a single person or thing or several entities considered as a single unit.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or being a verb expressing the action or state of a single subject.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the specific as distinguished from the general; individual.
  • noun. The singular number or a form designating it.
  • noun. A word having a singular number.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Being a unit, or one only; single.
  • Separate or apart from others; alone.
  • Pertaining to solitude, or separation from others; concerned with or involving solitude.
  • Pertaining to one person or thing; individual; also, pertaining to individual persons or things; in logic, not general; being only in one place at one time.
  • In grammar, denoting or relating to one person or thing: as, the singular number: opposed to dual and plural. Abbreviated singular
  • Having no duplicate or parallel; unmatched; unexampled; unique; being the only one of its kind.
  • Out of the usual course; unusual; uncommon; somewhat strange; a little extraordinary: as, a singular phenomenon.
  • Hence Of more than average value, worth, importance, or eminence; remarkable; fine; choice; precious; highly esteemed.
  • Not complying with common usage or expectation; hence, eccentric; peculiar; odd: as, he was very singular in his behavior.
  • In mathematics, exceptional.
  • Synonyms and Unwonted, exceptional, unparalleled.
  • Strange, Odd, etc. See eccentric.
  • noun. That which is singular, in any sense of the word; that which is alone, separate, individual, unique, rare, or peculiar. See singular, a.
  • noun. In grammar, the singular number.
  • noun. In hunting, a company or pack: said of boars.
  • noun. In logic, that which is not general, but has real reactions with other things.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An individual instance; a particular.
  • noun. The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.
  • adjective. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.
  • adjective. Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
  • adjective. Existing by itself; single; individual.
  • adjective. Each; individual.
  • adjective. Denoting one person or thing; ; -- opposed to dual and plural.
  • adjective. Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange.
  • adjective. Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional.
  • adjective. Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or censure.
  • adjective. Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.
  • adjective. a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point.
  • adjective. a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign.
  • adjective. division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass.
  • adjective. a term which represents or stands for a single individual.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Being only one of a larger population.
  • adjective. Being the only one of the kind; unique.
  • adjective. Distinguished by superiority, coming across as such.
  • adjective. Being out of the ordinary, coming across as such.
  • adjective. Referring to only one thing or person.
  • adjective. Having no inverse.
  • adjective. Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
  • noun. A form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.
  • Word Usage
    "On such accounts, syntactically plural reference is semantically singular; there is a sense of ˜singular™ in which"
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