individualnoun/ɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒʊəl/

• 1

  A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.

  • He is an unusual individual.
  • “You have to be an individual,” said Ms. Smoke, a 40-year-old saleswoman, as she sipped her beverage. “You can’t just get black coffee.”
• 2

  lawA single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.

  • Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination […].
• 3

  An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.

  • It is typically held that chairs, trees, rocks, people and many of the so-called ‘everyday’ objects we encounter can be regarded as individuals.
  • In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
• 4

  mathematicssciencesstatisticsAn element belonging to a population.

individualadj/ɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒʊəl/

• 1

  Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.

  • Near-synonyms: individuated, solitary, self-standing, freestanding
  • As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.
• 2

  Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

  • individual personal pension
  • individual cream cakes
• 3

  Not divisible without losing its identity.

  • Near-synonyms: unatomizable, indivisible, undividable