singulate

1. not comparablePertaining 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

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   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.

   2008, Lisa Yvette Dillon, “Ambiguity and Discontinuity in the Lives of Elderly Women”, in The Shady Side of Fifty: Age and Old Age in Late Victorian Canada and the United States, McGill-Queen’s University Press, page 153

   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, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 211

present singular third person singulates · participle present singulating · participle past singulated · past singulated

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

   Cleans debris as it unscrambles & singulates logs

   2002, Logging & Sawmilling Journal, page 24

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   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 Robot”, in S. Panigrahi, K.C. Ting, editors, Artificial Intelligence for Biology and Agriculture, Springer Science+Business Media, page 11

   Katz et al. [14] present an interactive segmentation algorithm to singulate cluttered objects using pushing and grasping.

   2020, Andreas Eitel, Nico Hauff, Wolfram Burgard, “Learning to Singulate Objects Using a Push Proposal Network”, in Nancy M. Amato, Greg Hager, Shawna Thomas, Miguel Torres-Torriti, editors, Robotics Research: The 18th International Symposium ISRR (Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics; 10), Springer Nature Switzerland AG, →ISBN, page 407