singulate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to being single (not in a marriage).
verb
To isolate from others; to separate off as a single item.
Example Sentences
- "[…]of the procedure in the present analysis is limited to a comparison of Hajnal’s “singulate” means for the 1948 and 1960 Census data."
- "Quebec children left home slightly earlier than their Maritime counterparts: the singulate mean age at marriage for Québécoise women was 25 compared to 26 among Nova Scotian women, while the singulate mean age at marriage for Québécois men was 27 compared to 29 for men in Nova Scotia."
- "The same equivalence holds between singulate means (adding bars) and ordinary means (adding bands), whether we work with averages ₙSₓ or exact-age values sₓ."
- "This device singulates the kernels permiting^([sic]) them to pass single file over a photo sensor (photodiode array) used to evaluate length."
- "The fingers pick a fruit off at the joint of its peduncle after the suction cup singulates it by vacuum from other fruits in the same cluster."
- "Cleans debris as it unscrambles & singulates logs"
Inflected Forms
singulates (present, singular)
singulating (participle, present)
singulated (participle, past)
singulated (past)
Derived Forms
SMAFM
SMAM