singular

Meanings

Adjective

• Being only one of a larger population.
• Being the only one of the kind; unique.
• Distinguished by superiority: peerless, unmatched, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary.
• Out of the ordinary; curious.
• Referring to only one thing or person.
• Having no inverse.
• Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
• Not equal to its own cofinality.
• Each; individual.
• Engaged in by only one on a side; single.

Noun

• A form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.
• That which is not general; a specific determinate instance.

Origin

• From Middle English singuler, borrowed from Old French, from Latin singulāris, from Latin singulus.