Singular vs Duoplural - What's the difference?
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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
(grammar) Pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two or more of something; nonsingular.
(linguistics, grammar) duoplural number; the grammatical number of a noun marking two or more of something (as in singular or duoplural). Some languages that employ the duoplural are Navajo and Taos, where the verb shows singular, dual, and plural numbers, but the nouns are marked only as singular or nonsingular (duoplural).
Singular is a see also of duoplural.
As adjectives the difference between singular and duoplural
is that singular is singular (linear algebra: of matrix: having no inverse) while duoplural is (grammar) pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two or more of something; nonsingular.As a noun duoplural is
(linguistics|grammar) duoplural number; the grammatical number of a noun marking two or more of something (as in singular or duoplural) some languages that employ the duoplural are navajo and taos, where the verb shows singular, dual, and plural numbers, but the nouns are marked only as singular or nonsingular (duoplural).singular
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(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