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The state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual

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A point where all parallel lines meet

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A point where a measured variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value

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The value or range of values of a function for which a derivative does not exist

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A point or region in spacetime in which gravitational forces cause matter to have an infinite density; associated with black holes

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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.

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Anything singular, rare, or curious.

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Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.

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Celibacy

An observer of very different mettle, the great lawyer d'Aguesseau, dwells on the "noble singularity, that gave him an almost prophetic air.

Among other species are P. antisianus, P. fulgidus, P. auriceps and P. pavoninus, from various parts of South America, but though all are beautiful birds, none possess the wonderful singularity of the quezal.

The singularity of its structure, its curious habits, and its peculiar economical value have naturally attracted no little attention from zoologists.

To complete Pliicker's theory it is necessary to take account of compound singularities; it might be possible, but it is at any rate difficult, to effect this by considering the curve as in course of description by the point moving along the rotating line; and it seems easier to consider the compound singularity as arising from the variation of an actually described curve with ordinary singularities.

Each singular kind presents itself as a limit separating two kinds of inferior singularity; the cuspidal separates the crunodal and the acnodal, and these last separate from each other the complex and the simplex.

Such limitation becomes soon emphatic in 2D data because of lack of an ability to capture directional singularity.

The point at which the star's mass is centered is called the singularity.

The problem may have a singularity, or the input may be inappropriate.

The scenario for inflation in 1982 was that the universe began with a big bang singularity.

But the Australian region is also remarkable for its ornithic singularity.

The point at which the star 's mass is centered is called the singularity.

See also matrix singularity, matrix inverse, generalized inverse.

The price one pays for a general potential, is a singularity at the south pole.

The singularity theorems imply the universe had an infinite density at some time in the past.

Chapter 6 covers singularity theory in the case where there is no distinguished parameter.

Obviously there are a number of degrees of duplication here, and therefore further singularity states.

With its singularity of purpose and the band 's rich and supple performance, this is Carthy 's best album to date.

Singularity While Enterprise is surveying a black hole in a trinary star system, the stellar phenomenon causes strange effects on the crew.

Unfortunately none of these, however, can be compared for singularity with Archaeopteryx or with some American fossil forms next to be noticed, for their particular It is true that from the time of Buffon, though he scorned any regular classification, geographical distribution had been occasionally held to have something to do with systematic arrangement; but the way in which the two were related was never clearly put forth, though people who could read between the lines might have guessed the secret from Darwin's Journal of Researches, as well as from his introduction to the Zoology of the " Beagle" Voyage.

The Thamnocephalidae have likewise but a single species, Thamnocephalus platyurus (Packard, 1877), which justifies its title " bushy-head of the broad tail " by a singularity at each end.

The singularities (I) and (3) have been termed proper singularities, and (2) and (4) improper; in each of the first-mentioned cases there is a real singularity, or peculiarity in the motion; in the other two cases there is not; in (2) there is not when the point is first at the node, or when it is secondly at the node, any peculiarity in the motion; the singularity consists in the point coming twice into the same position; and so in (4) the singularity is in the line coming twice into the same position.

Moreover (I) and (2) are, the former a proper singularity, and the latter an improper singularity, as regards the motion of the point; and similarly (3) and (4) are, the former a proper singularity, and the latter an improper singularity, as regards the motion of the line.

The cases may be divided into sub-cases, by the consideration of compound singularities; thus when m= 4, n= 6, S = 3, the three nodes may be all distinct, which is the general case, or two of them may unite together into the singularity called a tacnode, or all three may unite together into a triple point or else into an oscnode.

A naked singularity, by contrast, has no such protective barrier.

In the absence of any possibility of separating copies from ostensible originals, each thing, in simulation, is thus an absolute singularity.

But unless one knew what came out of the initial singularity, one could not calculate how the universe would develop.

Swift says that "with a singularity scarce to be justified he carried away more Greek, Latin and philosophy than properly became a person of his rank."

Amongst the legitimate reasons for suspecting the correctness of a text are patent contradictions in a passage or its immediate neighbourhood, proved and inexplicable deviations from the standards for forms, constructions and usages (mere rarity or singularity is not enough), weak and purposeless repetitions of a word (if there is no reason for attributing these to the writer), violations of the laws of metre and rhythm as observed by the author, obvious breaks in the thought (incoherence) or disorderly sequence in the same (double or multiple incoherence).

Singularity excites our wonder in Thaumastocheles zaleucus, v.

The singularity of Comte's construction, and the test by which it must be tried, is the transfer of the worship and discipline of Catholicism to a system in which " the conception of God is superseded " by the abstract idea of Humanity, conceived as a kind of Personality.