Singular

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sin·gu·lar [sing-gyuh-ler] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
2. unusual or strange; odd; different: singular behavior.
3. being the only one of its kind; distinctive; unique: a singular example.
4. separate; individual.
5. Grammar. noting or pertaining to a member of the category of number found in many languages that indicates that a word form has one referent or denotes one person, place, thing, or instance, as English boy and thing, which are singular nouns, or goes, a singular form of the verb go. Compare dual (def. 4), plural (def. 4).
6. Logic.
a. of or pertaining to something individual, specific, or not general.
b. (of a proposition) containing no quantifiers, as “Socrates was mortal.”
7. Mathematics.
a. of or pertaining to a linear transformation from a vector space to itself that is not one-to-one.
b. of or pertaining to a matrix having a determinant equal to zero.
8. Obsolete. private.
9. Obsolete. single.
–noun Grammar.
10. the singular number.
11. a form in the singular.
[Origin: 1300–50; ME < L singulāris. See single, -ar1]

—Related forms
sin·gu·lar·ly, adverb
sin·gu·lar·ness, noun

—Synonyms 1–4. peculiar. 2. bizarre, queer, curious. 3. uncommon, rare. 4. single.
—Antonyms 1. usual.




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