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Strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual
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A singularity is a weather phenomenon likely to occur with reasonable regularity around a specific approximate calendar date, outside of more general seasonal weather patterns (e.g., that May Day is usually warmer than New Year's Day in northern locales). ...
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n. the quality of being one of a kind; "that singularity distinguished him from all his companions" [syn: uniqueness ] strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Singularity \Sin`gu*lar"i*ty\ (s[i^ ng]`g[-u]*l[a^]r"[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. Singularities (s[i^ ng]`g[-u]*l[a^]r"[i^]*t[i^]z). [L. singularitas: cf. F. singularit['e].] The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB occur ▪ In this case either I or J must be unbounded, and a curvature singularity occurs . ▪ There exists, however, a very large class of exceptional solutions in which curvature singularities do not occur . ▪ The theory ...
Usage examples of singularity.
In general, Sartre was suspicious of psychoanalysis, put off by what he saw as dogmatic symbolism, mechanistic explanation, a preponderant role for the unconscious and sexuality, and an analytic method dividing the personality into hermetic components rather than attempting to comprehend it both in its singularity and, synthetically, as an indivisible totality.
Singularity a couple of times, usually in collaboration with gonzo Singleton Charlie Stross, the mad antipope of the Singularity.
Just as in the context of the dominant countries, here too the multiplicity and singularity of the multitude are negated in the straitjacket of the identity and homogeneity of the people.
A few microseconds after the singularity the Universe was mostly quagma - a magma of free quarks.
And if starquake could draw in powerful ships from such distances, then what forces raged within the Singularity itself?
Here is where a materialist telos is defined, founded on the action of singularities, a teleology that is a resultant of the res gestae and a figure of the machinic logic of the multitude.
When the back end caught up with the front, and the beam had theoretically no length at all, it became an unsustainable singularity that broke up in an instantaneous release of all its concentrated energy.
If you could pirate a Sassan ship as it drops out of null singularity, you could capture all the clearance codes.
Het Masteen stood at the locus of a circle of organic control diskeys -- displays from the fiber-optic nerves running throughout the ship, holo displays from onboard, astern, and ahead of the treeship, a communicator nexus to put him in touch with the Templars standing duty with the ergs, in the singularity containment core, at the drive roots, and elsewhere, and the central holo-simulacrum of the treeship itself, which he could touch with his long fingers to call up interactives or change headings.
In theory, such a compressed data formulation could be assembled under what scientists call nonrational continuum conditions, either within the event horizon of a singularity, or in the ach-ronic conditions preceding the big bang.
Better to think of the COREs and Singularity Rings and Carrier Drones and other forms as different castes of bees or ants than as different species.
The world was a faceted diamond of images: painted bulkheads, pseudosteel corridors, Sev still strapped to his bunk for the Singularity transition, the central cabin viewed from three angles at once: all framed by the external sensor views of blackness spattered by the fire of distant suns.
Vang and the Tetragrammaton types call an information density singularity.
The topologists know surfaces with as many as a thousand singularities, and they have properties that make the Mobius band and the Klein bottle both look simple.
Hawk pointed the scoutship away from both the warbird and the singularity, pushing the single impulse engine to the limit.