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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.

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).

Logic.

a.	of or pertaining to something individual, specific, or not general.

b.	(of a proposition) containing no quantifiers, as “Socrates was mortal.”

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, -ar ¹

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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sin·gu·lar (sĭng'gyə-lər)

adj.

Being only one; individual.
Being the only one of a kind; unique.
Being beyond what is ordinary or usual; remarkable.
Deviating from the usual or expected; odd. See Synonyms at strange.
Grammar
1. Of, relating to, or being a noun, pronoun, or adjective denoting a single person or thing or several entities considered as a single unit.
2. Of, relating to, or being a verb expressing the action or state of a single subject.
Logic Of or relating to the specific as distinguished from the general; individual.

n. Grammar

The singular number or a form designating it.
A word having a singular number.

[Middle English singuler, from Old French, from Latin singulāris, from singulus, single; see single.]
sin'gu·lar·ly adv., sin'gu·lar·ness n.

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Singular

Sin"gu*lar\, a. [OE. singuler, F. singulier, fr. L. singularius, singularis, fr. singulus single. See Single, a.]

1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] --Bacon.

And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. --Chaucer.

2. Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [Obs.]

To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. --Holinshed.

3. (Logic) Existing by itself; single; individual.

The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. --I. Watts.

4. (Law) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.

5. (Gram.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural.

6. Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.

So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect. --Denham.

7. Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.

8. Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure.

His zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash. --Milton.

To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise. --Tillotson.

9. Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.

These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind. --Addison.

Singular point in a curve (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point.

Singular proposition (Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign. --Whately.

Singular succession (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass.

Singular term (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual.

Syn: Unexampled; unprecedented; eminent; extraordinary; remarkable; uncommon; rare; unusual; peculiar; strange; odd; eccentric; fantastic.

Singular

Sin"gu*lar\, n. 1. An individual instance; a particular. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.

2. (Gram) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.

Language Translation for : singular

Spanish: singular,

German: der Singular; singularisch,

Japanese: 単数

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singular

In nouns, pronouns, and verbs, the grammatical form that refers to only one thing. In the following sentence, the singular words are italicized: “The police officer stops anyone who crosses before the light changes.” (Compare plural; see agreement.)

singular

c.1340, "alone, apart," from O.Fr. singuler "single, separate" (Fr. singulier), from L. singularis "single, solitary," from singulus (see single (adj.)). Meaning "remarkably good, unusual, rare" is from c.1400, though this was a common meaning of L. singularis.

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