singulate

To isolate from others; to separate off as a single item.

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to being single (not in a marriage).
    • […]of the procedure in the present analysis is limited to a comparison of Hajnal’s “singulate” means for the 1948 and 1960 Census data. - 1966, Philippine Sociological Review, page 7:
    • 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...
    • 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. - 2014, Kenneth W. Wachter, Essential Demographic Methods,...

Derived

SMAFM SMAM

Verb

  1. To isolate from others; to separate off as a single item.
    • This device singulates the kernels permiting^([sic]) them to pass single file over a photo sensor (photodiode array) used to evaluate length. - 1980, Miscellaneous Publication, page 57:
    • 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. - 1998, M. Monta, N. Kondo, K.C. Ting, “End-Effectors for Tomato Harvesting...
    • Cleans debris as it unscrambles & singulates logs - 2002, Logging & Sawmilling Journal, page 24:

Forms

singulates singulating singulated

Related

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