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Singularly

[sing-gyuh-ler]

sin·gu·lar

[sing-gyuh-ler]
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).
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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.
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noun Grammar.
10.
the singular number.
11.
a form in the singular.

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Singularly is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Latin singulāris. See single, -ar1

sin·gu·lar·ly, adverb
sin·gu·lar·ness, noun
su·per·sin·gu·lar, adjective
un·sin·gu·lar, adjective
un·sin·gu·lar·ly, adverb
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un·sin·gu·lar·ness, noun
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single, singular.


1–4. peculiar. 2. bizarre, queer, curious. 3. uncommon, rare. 4. single.


1. usual.

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singular (ˈsɪŋɡjʊlə)
 
adj
1.  remarkable; exceptional; extraordinary: a singular feat
2.  unusual; odd: a singular character
3.  unique
4.  denoting a word or an inflected form of a word indicating that not more than one referent is being referred to or described
5.  logic of or referring to a specific thing or person as opposed to something general
 
n
6.  grammar
 a.  the singular number
 b.  a singular form of a word
 
[C14: from Latin singulārissingle]
 
'singularly
 
adv
 
'singularness
 
n

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