singular

• (abbreviation): sg.

From Middle English singuler, borrowed from Old French [Term?], from Latin singularis (“alone of its kind”), from Latin singulus (“single”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋɡjəlɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋɡjʊlə/

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singular (comparative more singular, superlative most singular)

1. Being only one of a larger population.

   A singular experiment cannot be regarded as scientific proof of the existence of a phenomenon.

2. Being the only one of the kind; unique.

   She has a singular personality.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Addison

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

   • (Can we date this quote?) Chaucer

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

3. Distinguished by superiority; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional.

   a man of singular gravity or attainments

4. Out of the ordinary; curious.

   It was very singular; I don't know why he did it.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Denham

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

   • (Can we date this quote?) Milton

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

5. (grammar) Referring to only one thing or person.
6. (linear algebra, of matrix) Having no inverse.
7. (linear algebra, of transformation) Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
8. (set theory, of a cardinal number) Not equal to its own cofinality.
9. (law) Each; individual.

   to convey several parcels of land, all and singular

10. (obsolete) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Holinshed

      to try the matter thus together in a singular combat

• (being only one): individual; see also Thesaurus:specific
• (being the only one of a kind): unique; see also Thesaurus:unique
• (distinguished by superiority): exceptional, extraordinary, remarkable
• (being out of the ordinary): curious, eccentric, funny, odd, peculiar, strange, rum, rummy, unusual; see also Thesaurus:strange
• (linear algebra: of matrix: having no inverse): non-invertible

• (being only one): general; see also Thesaurus:generic
• (grammar: referring to only one thing): plural
• (linear algebra: of matrix: having no inverse): invertible, non-singular

• singularity
• singularize

singular (plural singulars)

1. (grammar) A form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.
2. (logic) That which is not general; a specific determinate instance.

• (grammar: form of a word that refers to only one thing): plural

• singulare tantum

• (grammatical numbers) grammatical number; singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural ^{(Category: en:Grammar)}
• simplex
• simple
• single
• singulus

• singular in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• singular in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• singular at OneLook Dictionary Search

• rail guns, railguns

Borrowed from Latin singulāris. Doublet of senglar.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /siŋ.ɡuˈla/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /siŋ.ɡuˈlaɾ/

singular (masculine and feminine plural singulars)

1. singular

• plural

• singularment

• singularitat
• singularitzar

Borrowed from Latin singulāris.

singular m or f (plural singulares)

1. singular

Borrowed from Latin singulāris. Doublet of senheiro.

singular m or f (plural singulares, comparable)

1. singular (being the only one of a kind)
2. (grammar) singular (referring to only one thing)

• (one of a kind): único

singular m (plural singulares)

1. (grammar) singular (form of a word that refers to only one thing)

Borrowed from Latin singulāris.

sȉngulār m (Cyrillic spelling си̏нгула̄р)

1. singular

• jednìna

Borrowed from Latin singulāris. Doublet of señero.

singular (plural singulares)

1. singular
2. odd, peculiar

• (singular): plural

• singularmente

singular m (plural singulares)

1. singular