See Also: singularity(medicine)
singularity(dictionary)
singularity(dictionary)

singularity (iou)



singularity noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French singularite from late Latin singularitas, from Latin singularis SINGULAR: see -ITY.]
The quality, state, or fact of being singular; now esp., the quality or fact of being remarkable or peculiar in some respect; eccentricity, strangeness. Also foll. by of. ME.
R. Church He showed some singularity by knocking the ceiling out of his wife's parlour. V. S. Pritchett Among the married she felt her singularity.
b. An exceptional or unusual trait or feature; a peculiarity. Freq. foll. by of. L16.
G. Gissing A strong illustration of one of the singularities of his character.
A single or separate thing; a unit. LME-E18.
Math. A point at which a function is not differentiable (i.e. takes an infinite value), though differentiable in the neighbourhood of the point. L19.
b. Astronomy. A region in space-time at which matter is infinitely dense. M20.