| 单词 | singular |
| 释义 | singular —singularly, adv. —singularness, n. /sing"gyeuh leuhr/, adj. 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. 5. Gram. 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. Cf. dual (def. 4), plural (def. 4). 6. Logic. a. of or pertaining to something individual, specific, or not general. b. (of a proposition) containing no quantifiers, as "Socrates was mortal." 7. Math. 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. Obs. private. 9. Obs. single. n. Gram. 10. the singular number. 11. a form in the singular. [1300-50; ME < L singularis. See SINGLE, -AR1] Syn. 1-4. peculiar. 2. bizarre, queer, curious. 3. uncommon, rare. 4. single. Ant. 1. usual. |
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