The phrase "a pool of one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is only one option or individual available, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "In a pool of one, the decision was straightforward, as there were no alternatives to consider."
Alternatives: "a single option" or "one choice available".
How else to explain an all-male, all-white finalist pool -- a pool of one?
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Columns 3 and 4 of table 1 show the total nitrogen and carbon mass contained in a pool of one hundred moles of bloodmeal amino acids; both must be accounted for completely in the stoichiometric analysis.
The first library (PF7) was isolated from four animals 7 days post-fracture, the second library (PF10) was isolated from three animals 10 days post-fracture, and the third library was isolated from a pool of one animal each at 2 weeks, 3 weeks, and 4.5 weeks post-fracture.
According to Coach Rex Ryan, such players are rare, if not limited to a pool of one.
Rather than tediously measuring a pool of cells one by one looking for those that are methylated, he proposed a statistical method that could detect cell-specific signaling.
He was one of a pool of 20,000 one-time Islamist jihadi suspects but was not one of the 3,000 people under active investigation.
In this paper we propose a rupture with this old philosophy and have therefore designed and prototyped a flexible mechanism to select the most suitable trust and reputation model to apply on-the-fly, amongst a pool of predefined ones, considering both the current system conditions and the selected performance measurements, which, to the best of our knowledge, is missing nowadays.
We argue that any threshold criterion leading to the selective interpretation of some relationships from a pool of investigated ones will face the same problem (see also Ioannidis 2008).
Defined as 'an asset-backed security backed by a diversified pool of one or more classes of debt' (Lucas et al., 2008: 395), CDOs were introduced in 1987 in the US (Stefani, 2010).
5% sensitivity level corresponds roughly to one heterozygous mutant in a pool of eight individuals (one mutant allele of 16 alleles, e.g., 6.25%).
