See Also:

singularity (iou) and She-Ji (sh)


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.

She-Ji (sh)




or She-Chi

Ancient Chinese compound deity of the soil and harvests.

China's earliest legendary emperors worshiped She (earth), for they alone had responsibility for the entire earth and country. Since ordinary people had no part in this courtly worship, they came to focus their worship on the god of grain (Ji). Local shrines held two images, one of She and one of Ji, and eventually the two images were considered man and wife.