Singularとは

語源

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

発音

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

形容詞

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 かつ 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

同意語

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

反意語

• (grammar: referring to only one thing): plural
• (linear algebra: of matrix: having no inverse): invertible, non-singular

派生語

• singularity
• singularize

名詞

singular (複数形 singulars)

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

反意語

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

関連する語

• singulare tantum

参考

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

Further reading

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

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