singularity
sin·gu·lar·ity (siŋ′gyə ler′ə tē)
noun pl. -·ties
- the condition or quality of being singular
- a unique, distinct, or peculiar feature or thing
- Physics a point or region at the center of a black hole, where, it is theorized, the force of gravity compresses an object such that it has infinite density and almost no volume
Etymology: ME singularite < OFr < LL singularitas
singularity
n.
Irregularity
deviation, curiosity, abnormality; see irregularity 2.Idiosyncrasy
peculiarity, propensity, manner; see characteristic, quirk.
Converse of object
- call: The point at which the star's mass is centered is called the singularity.
- have: The problem may have a singularity, or the input may be inappropriate.
- see: See also matrix singularity, matrix inverse, generalized inverse.
Preposition: at
- pole: The price one pays for a general potential, is a singularity at the south pole.
Adjective modifier
- naked: A naked singularity, by contrast, has no such protective barrier.
- absolute: In the absence of any possibility of separating copies from ostensible originals, each thing, in simulation, is thus an absolute singularity.
- such: However, as I said earlier, I shall take it that such singularities are harmless.
- other: All these and other singularities do not hinder the poem from being a very spirited one.
- orbifold: These orbifold singularities in the backgrounds could be resolved, by replacing a small neighborhood of the nut, by an ALE metric.
- initial: But unless one knew what came out of the initial singularity, one could not calculate how the universe would develop.
Modifies a noun
- theorem: The singularity theorems imply the universe had an infinite density at some time in the past.
- theory: Chapter 6 covers singularity theory in the case where there is no distinguished parameter.
- state: Obviously there are a number of degrees of duplication here, and therefore further singularity states.
- analysis: Exact solutions and singularity analysis The Painlevé property has been used in many hundreds of papers to identify integrable cases of equations.
Noun used with modifier
- bang: The scenario for inflation in 1982 was that the universe began with a big bang singularity.
- matrix: See also matrix singularity, matrix inverse, generalized inverse.
- phase: The two new chapters describe numerical experiments on two- and three-dimensional rotors, and phase singularities in the heart wall.
- stress: We apply the method to compressible and incompressible linear elasticity problems, including problems with stress singularities.
- hole: Although computer simulations can help, many algorithms fail when they address regions near black hole singularities where the gravitational fields theoretically approach infinity.
Preposition: of
- purpose: With its singularity of purpose and the band's rich and supple performance, this is Carthy's best album to date.
Though one eye may be very agreeable, yet as the prejudice has always run in favour of two, I would not wish to affect a singularity in that article.
And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.
Singularity is almost invariablya clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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