singular

IPA: sˈɪŋgjʌɫɝ

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.

Examples of "singular" in Sentences

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.