Individual vs. Singular

Individual vs. Singular — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Individual and Singular

Individualnoun

A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.

He is an unusual individual.

Singularadjective

Being only one of a larger population.

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

Individualnoun

(legal) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.

Singularadjective

Being the only one of the kind; unique.

She has a singular personality.

Individualnoun

An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.

Singularadjective

Distinguished by superiority: peerless, unmatched, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary.

a man of singular gravity or attainments
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Individualnoun

(statistics) An element belonging to a population.

Singularadjective

Out of the ordinary; curious.

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

Individualadjective

Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.

As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.

Singularadjective

(grammar) Referring to only one thing or person.

Individualadjective

Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

individual personal pension; individual cream cakes

Singularadjective

Having no inverse.

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Individualadjective

Not divisible without losing its identity.

Singularadjective

Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.

Individualnoun

a human being;

there was too much for one person to do

Singularadjective

Not equal to its own cofinality.

Individualnoun

a single organism

Singularadjective

(law) Each; individual.

to convey several parcels of land, all and singular

Individualadjective

being or characteristic of a single thing or person;

individual drops of rainplease mark the individual pagesthey went their individual ways

Singularadjective

(obsolete) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.

Individualadjective

separate and distinct from others of the same kind;

mark the individual pageson a case-by-case basis

Singularnoun

(grammar) A form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.

Individualadjective

characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing;

an individual servingseparate roomssingle occupancya single bed

Singularnoun

(logic) That which is not general; a specific determinate instance.

Individualadjective

concerning one person exclusively;

we all have individual carseach room has a private bath

Singularnoun

the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton

Singularadjective

unusual or striking;

a remarkable sightsuch poise is singular in one so young

Singularadjective

beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;

a curious hybrid accenther speech has a funny twangthey have some funny ideas about warhad an odd namethe peculiar aromatic odor of clovessomething definitely queer about this townwhat a rum fellowsingular behavior

Singularadjective

being a single and separate person or thing;

can the singular person be understood apart from his culture?every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind

Singularadjective

grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit

Singularadjective

the single one of its kind;

a singular examplethe unique existing example of Donne's handwritinga unique copy of an ancient manuscriptcertain types of problems have unique solutions