Singularly vs Singularity - What's the difference?
singularly | singularity |
In a singular manner.
Strangely; oddly.
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
the state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual
* Addison
* Sir Walter Raleigh
a point where all parallel lines meet
a point where a measured variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value
(mathematics) the value or range of values of a function for which a derivative does not exist
(physics) a point or region in spacetime in which gravitational forces cause matter to have an infinite density; associated with black holes
A proposed point in the technological future at which artificial intelligences become capable of augmenting and improving themselves, leading to an explosive growth in intelligence.
(obsolete) Anything singular, rare, or curious.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
* Hooker
* Bishop Pearson
(obsolete) celibacy
As an adverb singularly
is in a singular manner.As a noun singularity is
the state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual.singularly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.
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*singularity
English
Noun
- I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument.
- Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn.
- Your gallery Have we passed through, not without much content / In many singularities .
- No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop].
- Catholicism must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation.
- (Jeremy Taylor)
