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| 1. | a single human being, as distinguished from a group. |
| 2. | a person: a strange individual. |
| 3. | a distinct, indivisible entity; a single thing, being, instance, or item. |
| 4. | a group considered as a unit. |
| 5. | Biology.
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| 6. | Cards. a duplicate-bridge tournament in which each player plays the same number of hands in partnership with every other player, individual scores for each player being kept for each hand. |
| 7. | single; particular; separate: to number individual copies of a limited edition. |
| 8. | intended for the use of one person only: to serve individual portions of a pizza. |
| 9. | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a particular person or thing: individual tastes. |
| 10. | distinguished by special, singular, or markedly personal characteristics; exhibiting unique or unusual qualities: a highly individual style of painting. |
| 11. | existing as a distinct, indivisible entity, or considered as such; discrete: individual parts of a tea set. |
| 12. | of which each is different or of a different design from the others: a set of individual coffee cups. |