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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