singular

IPA: sˈɪŋgjʌɫɝ

noun

  • (grammar) A form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.
  • (logic) That which is not general; a specific determinate instance.

adjective

  • Being only one of a larger population.
  • Being the only one of the kind; unique.
  • Distinguished by superiority: peerless, unmatched, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary.
  • Out of the ordinary; curious.
  • (grammar) Referring to only one thing or person.
  • (linear algebra, of matrix) Having no inverse.
  • (linear algebra, of transformation) Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
  • (set theory, of a cardinal number) Not equal to its own cofinality.
  • (law) Each; individual.
  • (obsolete) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
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Examples of "singular" in Sentences

  • Is the term never used in the singular
  • The objective is used only in singular.
  • Feces is the singular and the plural form.
  • The consensus was to keep the singular form.
  • The former is plural and the latter singular.
  • The former plural is and the latter is singular.
  • The metric distance to the singularity is finite.
  • A service is a set of singular and perishable benefits.
  • But the name of the page typically defaults to the singular.
  • On the German Wikipedia they define it in the singular in the definition.
  • If anyone wants a real sickener, get it first-person singular from the horse's mouth:
  • Also by the term singular, I stick to only mathematical definition rather than its physical existence.
  • On such accounts, syntactically plural reference is semantically singular; there is a sense of ˜singular™ in which
  • I do not believe in singular happenstance therefore if a situation like this occurred once, it has happened again.
  • The "singular" is shipwrecked (George Oppen) as the world becomes "numerous," and the sonnet disdains its tradition as a monumental form by dissolving in its anticipated new beginnings.
  • The nominative _girl_ is here of the singular number, because it signifies but one person; and the verb _writes_ denotes but one action, which the girl performs; therefore the verb _writes_ is of the _singular_ number, agreeing with its nominative _girl_.
  • AN amiable enthusiast, immortal in his beautiful little romance of Paul and Virginia, has given us in his Miscellanies a chapter on the Pleasures of Tombs, -- a title singular enough, yet not inappropriate; for the meek - spirited and sentimental author has given, in his own flowing and eloquent language, its vindication.

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