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How to use singularity in a sentence

28 example sentences · noun

Singularity means the state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual. Example: “A sub-cultural style or artifact, when adopted by the mainstream, loses its singularity.”

Examples of singularity by meaning

nounThe state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual.

  • A sub-cultural style or artifact, when adopted by the mainstream, loses its singularity.1980 August 16, Michael Bronski, “Does Life Incriminate Art?”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 10

nounAnything singular, rare, or curious.

  • By a distracting repetition of cross-examination he was forced to confess that he had seen and spoken to a human biped in broad daylight, yet could not recollect one singularity to distinguish this phantom from the flat mass of humanity.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 89

nounCelibacy, singleness (as contrasted with marriage).

  • Gradually the implication of biblical monotheism created an entailment of singularity and monogamy in sexual relations.1995, Joseph Monti, Arguing About Sex: The Rhetoric of Christian Sexual Morality, page 234
  • As I write, I am conscious of a singularity that I live and that is supported by close friends, family, clients and religious community.2015, Susan J. Pollard, Celibacy and Soul: Exploring the Depths of Chastity, Fisher King Press, →ISBN, page 59

More sentences with singularity

  • For the consequences for humanity, if a technological singularity did indeed occur, would be seismic.2015, Murray Shanahan, The Technological Singularity, MIT Press, →ISBN, page xx. From the entry technological singularity
  • We examine the notion of anticonfinement in the context of the singularity analysis of discrete systems.2015, Takafumi Mase, Ralph Willox, Alfred Ramani, Basil Grammaticos, “Integrable mappings and the notion of anticonfinement”, in arXiv. From the entry anticonfinement
  • We now formulate the first generic property concerning the singularities of a Hamiltonian function.2010, H. W. Broer, F. Takens, “Chapter 1: Preliminaries of Dynamical Systems Theory”, in B. Hasselblatt, H. W. Broer, F. Takens, editors…. From the entry generic property
  • It is not, therefore, the kind of singularity that spells inevitable spaghettification.2005, Michael Lockwood, “Closed Timelike Curves: Science Fact or Science Fiction?”, in The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe…. From the entry spaghettification
  • The singularity of his epigraphic strategy notwithstanding, Emerson does not draw attention to his own mottoing.2003, Nineteenth Century Prose, volume 30, page 304. From the entry motto
  • If one has a singularity, one may look at the second-order terms in the Taylor's polynomial.1980, Donald W. Kahn, Introduction to Global Analysis, Academic Press, page 314. From the entry Taylor polynomial
  • If (a) singularity was "a physical existence", shouldn't said existence have been "dividable (measurement-wise) into differentiatable different parts"?2024, Mr. Jeffrey Robert Palin Jr., Gigged Up. From the entry differentiatable
  • What sort of world, what sort of universe, might come into being if a technological singularity does occur?2015, Murray Shanahan, The Technological Singularity, MIT Press, →ISBN, page xx. From the entry technological singularity
  • Self-shrinkers are hypersurfaces that shrink homothetically under mean curvature flow; these solitons model the singularities of the flow.2015, Qiang Guang, Jonathan J. Zhu, “Rigidity and Curvature Estimates for Graphical Self-shrinkers”, in arXiv. From the entry homothetically
  • Universality has its provenance in the absolute singularity of this death-destroying anastasic moment at the impossible interface between time and eternity.2015, Carl Raschke, Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy, →ISBN. From the entry anastasic
  • We find that the gravity duals of theories with klt;(N-M) contain enhancons even in situations where repulson singularities are absent.2015, William Cottrell, James Hanson, Akikazu Hashimoto, “Dynamics of cal N=4 supersymmetric field theories in 2+1 dimensions and their…. From the entry enhancons
  • It’s probably a bit like the word ‘god’ something which doesn’t exist or have a singularity of meaning.2012, Bob Spencer, “The Body Farm”, in Sanity and Solitude: Cogent Ramblings of a Lone Aesthetic, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry pedantics
  • The ear is always open, always supplementing its primary materiality, always multiplying the singularity of perception into the plurality of experience.2009, Seth Kim-Cohen, In the blink of an ear: toward a non-cochlear sonic art, page xx. From the entry earlid
  • His shadow-form would be immune to the resulting singularity hyperexplosion.2009, John C. Wright, Null-A Continuum, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 215. From the entry hyperexplosion
  • Despite the portentousness of its title, La France remains a close and intimate work that sustains its singularity to the end.2008 July 8, Fernando F. Croce, “La France”, in Slant Magazine. From the entry portentousness
  • It is an easy matter to give examples of "elementary" functions whose singularities have a countable number of limit points.1962 [Ginn and Company], Einar Hille, Analytic Function Theory, Volume 2, 2005, American Mathematical Society, page 19, The function sin (…. From the entry limit point
  • We show through several concrete examples that the behaviour of anticonfined singularities is strongly related to the integrability properties of such discrete mappings..2015, Takafumi Mase, Ralph Willox, Alfred Ramani, Basil Grammaticos, “Integrable mappings and the notion of anticonfinement”, in arXiv. From the entry anticonfined
  • We calculate the threshold singularities in one-dimensional models using the universal low-energy formfactors obtained in the framework of the non-linear Luttinger liquid model.2015, A.A.Ovchinnikov, “Threshold singularities in the correlators of the one-dimensional models”, in arXiv. From the entry formfactor
  • There is a deep and only partially understood connection between the classification and structure of singularities and the Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams introduced by H.2000, Andrei Gabrielov, “Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams and singularities”, in Evgeniĭ Borisovich Dynkin, A. A. Yushkevich, Gary M. Seitz, A. L.…. From the entry Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
  • A global culture would exist only if it permitted—"systemically," as it were — the coming into being of communities of such absolute singularities.1995 Fall, Kenneth Surin, “On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture”, in The South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 94, number 4, Durham…. From the entry polytopian
  • These dark objects do not have an event horizon, and there is no singularity at their center, as is the case with classical black hole solutions in general relativity.2020, John W. Moffat, The Shadow of the Black Hole, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry gravastar
  • We consider families of curve-to-curve maps that have no singularities except those of genus 0 stable maps and that satisfy a versality condition at each singularity.2015, Maxim Kazarian, Sergey Lando, Dimitri Zvonkine, “Universal cohomological expressions for singularities in families of genus 0 stable…. From the entry versality
  • John's willingness to relocate theandricism from the plurality of energies to the singularity of their actualized activity is, I think, what older dyothelites such as Maximus had finally intended.2014, Darren O. Sumner, Karl Barth and the Incarnation: Christology and the Humility of God, →ISBN. From the entry dyothelite
  • As there is no evidence of an unconditional singularity anywhere it is highly likely that there are other universes and even “mother” megaverses of infinite proportions.2013, Patrick Cusick, Universis: Big Bangs and Universal Beings, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry megaverse

Meaning of singularity

  1. noun The state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual.
  2. noun An unusual action or behaviour.
  3. noun A point where all parallel lines meet.

Full definition of singularity

Questions about singularity in a sentence

How do you use singularity in a sentence?
Singularity is used as a noun. For example: “A sub-cultural style or artifact, when adopted by the mainstream, loses its singularity.”
What is a short sentence with singularity?
“His shadow-form would be immune to the resulting singularity hyperexplosion.”
What does singularity mean?
Singularity means the state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual.

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