What is the difference between individual and singular?
individual | singular | Synonyms |
A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
(legal) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
* 1982 , Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms :
An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, chapter=Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory, title=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, author=Steven French
, passage=It is typically held that chairs, trees, rocks, people and many of the so-called ‘everyday’ objects we encounter can be regarded as individuals .}}
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, title= (lb) An element belonging to a population.
Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
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, title= Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
Being only one of a larger population.
Being the only one of the kind; unique.
* Addison
* Chaucer
Distinguished by superiority; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional.
Out of the ordinary; curious.
* Denham
* Milton
(grammar) Referring to only one thing or person.
(linear algebra, of matrix) Having no inverse.
(linear algebra, of transformation) Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
(set theory, of a cardinal number) Not equal to its own .
(legal) Each; individual.
(obsolete) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
* Holinshed
Singular is a synonym of individual.
In lang=en terms the difference between individual and singular
is that individual is a single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation while singular is each; individual.As nouns the difference between individual and singular
is that individual is a person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people while singular is a form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.As adjectives the difference between individual and singular
is that individual is relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one while singular is being only one of a larger population.individual
English
Alternative forms
* individuall (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination […].
citation
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Adjective
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Synonyms
* (relating to a single person or thing) (l), (l) * (intended for a single person or thing) (l), (l)Antonyms
* (relating to a single person or thing) (l) * (intended for a single person or thing) (l), (l), (l)External links
* *Statistics
* ----singular
English
Alternative forms
* (abbreviation):Adjective
(en adjective)- A singular experiment cannot be regarded as scientific proof of the existence of a phenomenon.
- She has a singular personality.
- These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind.
- And God forbid that all a company / Should rue a singular man's folly.
- (Francis Bacon)
- a man of singular gravity or attainments
- It was very singular ; I don't know why he did it.
- So singular a sadness / Must have a cause as strange as the effect.
- His zeal / None seconded, as out of season judged, / Or singular and rash.
- to convey several parcels of land, all and singular
- to try the matter thus together in a singular combat