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Definition of Singular

1. Noun. The form of a word that is used to denote a singleton.

2. Adjective. Unusual or striking. "Such poise is singular in one so young"

3. Adjective. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected. "Singular behavior"

4. Adjective. Being a single and separate person or thing. "Every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind"

5. Adjective. Composed of one member, set, or kind.

6. Adjective. Grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit.

7. Adjective. The single one of its kind. "Certain types of problems have unique solutions"

Definition of Singular

1. a. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.

2. n. An individual instance; a particular.

Definition of Singular

1. Adjective. Being only one of a larger population. ¹

2. Adjective. Being the only one of the kind; unique. ¹

3. Adjective. Distinguished by superiority, coming across as such. ¹

4. Adjective. Being out of the ordinary, coming across as such. ¹

5. Adjective. (grammar) Referring to only one thing or person. ¹

6. Adjective. (context: linear algebra of matrix) Having no inverse. ¹

7. Adjective. (context: linear algebra of transformation) Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero. ¹

8. Noun. (grammar) A form of a word that refers to only one person or thing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Singular

1. a word form that denotes one person or thing [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Singular

singlinos singlism singlist singlists singly singly even sings sings along singsong singsongs

singsongy singspiel singspiels singster singsters singular (current term) singular form singular matrix singular they singular value decomposition

singulare tantum singularia tantum singularise singularist singularists singularitarian singularitarians singularities singularity singularize

Literary usage of Singular

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Let yi, . . . yn be continued analytically along a path passing, in the positive direction, around one of these singular points a, and let yi, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Variation of accent plays no part in the declension of Latin nouns, for since prehistoric times Latin had an accent at singular. a fixed place, ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"On the singular Solutions of Simultaneous Ordinary Differential Equations ... This paper is an attempt to shew how the singular solutions of simultaneous ..."

4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1888)
"DIFFERENTIAL equations generally have no singular solutions. For their occurrence in the case of the equation of the second order, it is necessary that ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... may not only amuse the fancy by the singular picture of a great empire, but will tend to illustrate' the secret and internal cause of its rapid decay. ..."

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