What is the difference between simplex and singular?
simplex | singular |
Single, simple; not complex.
(telecommunications) unidirectional
An analogue in any dimension of the triangle or tetrahedron: the convex hull of n+1'' points in ''n -dimensional space.
(linguistics) A simple word, one without affixes.
* 1978 , Helga Harries-Delisle, Contrastive Emphasis and Cleft Sentences'', in ''Universals of Human Language , edited by Joseph H. Greenberg, ISBN 0804709696, page 460:
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
As adjectives the difference between simplex and singular
is that simplex is single, simple; not complex while singular is being only one of a larger population.As nouns the difference between simplex and singular
is that simplex is an analogue in any dimension of the triangle or tetrahedron: the convex hull of n+1 points in n-dimensional space while singular is a form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.simplex
English
(wikipedia simplex)Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* (simple) complex * (unidirectional) duplex (bidirectional)Coordinate terms
(unidirectional) * half-duplex * full-duplexNoun
(en-noun)- The only indication that 139. is a simplex is the sentence intonation and the absence of a break between the verb and the subject.
Derived terms
* simplicialSee also
* complexsingular
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
