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.