Singularityname

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  engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe technological singularity.

  • The notion of the Singularity is predicated on Moore's Law, the 1965 observation by the Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, that the number of transistors that can be etched onto a sliver of silicon doubles at roughly two year intervals.

singularitynoun/ˌsɪŋɡjəˈlæɹətɪ/

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

  • Pliny addeth this ſingularity to the Indian ſoil, that it is without weeds, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn.
  • I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument.
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  An unusual action or behaviour.

  • When about 16 years of age I happened to meet with a book, written by one Tryon, recommending a vegetable diet. I determined to go into it. […] My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
  • "Do you know," said she to Guido one morning, when, after asking her to sing, the Englishman had left the room in the very middle of her song, "that I have taken a fancy into my head, which quite accounts for Mr. Arden's singularities: it is, that I am like some one whom he loved and lost in early youth; and though the loss is dreadful, the love is yet pleasant to remember."
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  A point where all parallel lines meet.

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  A point where a measured variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value.

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  mathematicssciencesThe value or range of values of a function for which a derivative does not exist.

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  obsoleteAnything singular, rare, or curious.

  • Your Gallerie / Haue vve paſs'd through, not vvithout much content / In many ſingularities; […]
  • [N]either my Birth, my Education, nor the generall courſe of my life can promiſe no ſingularitie in any part of thoſe Actes they treate of: […]
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  obsoletePossession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.

  • St. Gregory, being himself a Bishop of Rome, and writing against the title of Universal Bishop, saith thus, "None of all my predecessors ever consented to use this ungodly title; no bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity."
  • Catholicism […] must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation.
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  Celibacy, singleness (as contrasted with marriage).

  • Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves Kingdomes, and fils Cities, and Churches, and Heaven itself: Celibate, like the flie in the heart of an apple, dwels in a perpetuall sweetnesse, but sits alone, and is confin'd, and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house and gathers sweetnesse from every flower, and labours and unites into Societies and Republicks, and sends out colonies, and feeds the world with delicacies, and obeys its king, and keeps order, and exercises many vertues, and promotes the interest of mankind, and is that state of good things to which God hath designed the present constitution of the world.
  • Gradually the implication of biblical monotheism created an entailment of singularity and monogamy in sexual relations.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• gravitational singularity
• technological singularity