Crossword clues for singularity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity.
Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn.
--Sir. W. Raleigh.I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument.
--Addison. -
Anything singular, rare, or curious.
Your gallery Have we passed through, not without much content In many singularities.
--Shak. -
Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop].
--Hooker.Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation.
--Bp. Pearson. Celibacy. [Obs.]
--Jer. Taylor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "unusual behavior," also "singleness of aim or purpose," from Old French singulerte "peculiarity" (12c., Modern French singularité) or directly from Late Latin singularitatem (nominative singularitas) "a being alone," from singularis (see singular (adj.)). Meaning "fact of being different from others" is c.1500. Mathematical sense of "point at which a function takes an infinite value" is from 1893. Astronomical use is from 1965.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual 2 a point where all parallel lines meet 3 a point where a measured variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value 4 (context mathematics English) the value or range of values of a function for which a derivative does not exist 5 (context physics English) a point or region in spacetime in which gravitational forces cause matter to have an infinite density; associated with black holes 6 A proposed point in the technological future at which artificial intelligences become capable of augmenting and improve themselves, leading to an explosive growth in intelligence. 7 (context obsolete English) Anything singular, rare, or curious. 8 (context obsolete English) Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction. 9 (context obsolete English) celibacy
WordNet
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
Wikipedia
Singularity or singular point may refer to:
Singularity was an experimental operating system built by Microsoft Research between 2003 and 2010. It was designed as a highly- dependable OS in which the kernel, device drivers, and applications were all written in managed code.
Singularity is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
__NOTOC__ "Singularity" is the thirty-fifth episode (production #209) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the ninth of the second season.
The crew obsess over trivial-matters when they explore a black-hole in a trinary star-system and succumb to its radiation.
Singularity is Mae's third full-length release and their major label debut. The album was originally to be released in April 2007 on Tooth & Nail Records like their previous two albums, but the band signed a deal with major label Capitol Records soon after the new album announcement which pushed the release date back to August 14, 2007.
Singularity, published in 1985 by E. P. Dutton, is a science fiction novel for young adults written by William Sleator. It was listed as a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and was a Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Nominee.
In mathematics, a singularity is in general a point at which a given mathematical object is not defined, or a point of an exceptional set where it fails to be well-behaved in some particular way, such as differentiability. See Singularity theory for general discussion of the geometric theory, which only covers some aspects.
For example, the function
$$f(x)=\frac{1}{x}$$
on the real line has a singularity at x = 0, where it seems to "explode" to ±∞ and is not defined. The function g(x) = |x| (see absolute value) also has a singularity at x = 0, since it is not differentiable there. Similarly, the graph defined by y = x also has a singularity at (0,0), this time because it has a "corner" (vertical tangent) at that point.
The algebraic set defined by {(x, y) : ∣x∣ = ∣y∣} in the (x, y) coordinate system has a singularity (singular point) at (0, 0) because it does not admit a tangent there.
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). The existence of singularities is disputed, some considering them due to seeing patterns in noise and statistical artifacts from small samples.
In North America, the most significant purported singularities are January thaw (warmer weather around January 25) and Indian summer (warmer weather in mid-autumn).
More fanciful ones include the British tradition that rain on St. Swithun's Day (15 July) will be followed by forty days and nights of rain, and similar folk beliefs around groundhog day.
Singularity is an album by Peter Hammill, released on his own Fie! Records label in December 2006.
The album was the first Hammill recorded after suffering a heart attack in 2003. Some of the songs ("Our Eyes Give It Shape", "Event Horizon") refer directly to his brush with death. Others address questions of mortality in related ways ("Meanwhile My Mother" is about his mother's decline, "Friday Afternoon" about the untimely death of his piano tuner).
Unlike most recent Hammill albums, Singularity is a completely solo effort, i.e. it was written, played and produced entirely by him. It has been hailed by some as one of his best albums since the 1980s.
The cover was again designed by frequent Hammill collaborator Paul Ridout. Using a photo by Dinu and playing with the term "Singularity" it shows Peter's face on the back cover a second time as a mirror-image.
Singularity (ISBN 0-9745734-4-2) is a novel by Bill DeSmedt published by Per Aspera Press on November 8, 2004.
It is based on the theory that the Tunguska Event was caused by a micro black hole.
Singularity is a 2010 first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision and released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Singularity is Raven Software's third title built on Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3.
Singularity is the sixth and most recent solo album by Robby Krieger, former guitarist for The Doors. The album was released in 2010.
"Singularity" is a single by Bright Eyes, released in February 2011 alongside their album The People's Key.
Singularity is the second full-length album from Australian metalcore band Northlane. It was released by We Are Unified and Distort on 22 March 2013. This is the last album to feature vocalist Adrian Fitipaldes before his departure in 2014.
Singularity is a solo album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris, which was recorded in 2000 and released on the AUM Fidelity label.
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.