Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural.

The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.

One. See number. COMPARE plural.

the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton

Relating to a word form denoting one person, thing, or instance e.g. The apple I ate was rotten. The woman in red is my cousin.

One; the opposite of plural.

Object names appear in the Singular apart from instances where the Plural is the common usage (for example, running planks or where the Singular changes the meaning.

a form of a word which refers to just one thing

A value of NUMBER CONTRAST used when a single entity is being referred to. The converse of PLURAL. See also

SINGULAR is a computer algebra system for polynomial computations with special emphasis on the needs of commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory. Problems in non-commutative algebra can be tackled with the SINGULAR offspring PLURAL. SINGULAR was designed by Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister and Hans Schönemann.