Definitions | singular |
| noun
- (grammar) A form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.
adjective
- Being only one of a larger population.
- A experiment cannot be regarded as scientific proof of the existence of a phenomenon.
- Being the only one of the kind; unique.
- Distinguished by superiority.
- Being out of the ordinary.
- (grammar) Referring to only one thing or person.
- (context, linearalg, of matrix) Having no inverse.
- (context, linearalg, of transformation) Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
Etymology: From singuler < < singularis "alone of its kind" < singulus "single".
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