Adjective

(en adjective)

Worthy of note; significant.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable . He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}

Capable of being seen or noticed.

* November 17 2012 , BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355]

The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Being only one of a larger population.

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

Being the only one of the kind; unique.

She has a singular personality.

* Addison

These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind.

* Chaucer

And God forbid that all a company / Should rue a singular man's folly.

(Francis Bacon)

Distinguished by superiority; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional.

a man of singular gravity or attainments

Out of the ordinary; curious.

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

* Denham

So singular a sadness / Must have a cause as strange as the effect.

* Milton

His zeal / None seconded, as out of season judged, / Or singular and rash.

(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.

to convey several parcels of land, all and singular

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

* Holinshed

to try the matter thus together in a singular combat