The phrase "appear as a single" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that presents itself or is perceived as one entity or unit.
Example: "When viewed from a distance, the two mountains appear as a single peak."
Alternatives: "seem like one" or "look like a single entity."
For most variants, the frequency histograms appear as a single asymmetric population distribution (Supplementary Fig. 4).
For the end-user, however, the entire infrastructure will appear as a single application.
On the GDx, a nerve fiber bundle can appear as a single or as a split bundle.
St. David's School occupies the three 89th Street buildings, and they now appear as a single unit.
It is so distant that to anyone there, the sun would appear as a single point of light, albeit a bright one.
When you scroll between photos, Photosynth makes no effort to make them appear as a single image; one just fades into the next.
JESSICA hides the physical boundaries between machines and makes the cluster appear as a single computer to applications a single system image.
By flying a short distance behind and most likely a little above the altitude of SIA68, also a Boeing 777, Ledgerwood said that it would be able to appear as a single blip on radar screens.
Suddenly, Mario is looking down a hallway at monsters as thin as a slip of paper that he can casually walk by Seemingly solid platforms turn out to be several different platforms carefully arranged so that from a side view they appear as a single entity.
We consider how a new hybrid SME web server architecture based on two co-located, mirrored platforms (a high-performance and high-power Master and a low-performance and low-power Assistant) can be architected to appear as a single system image to clients, significantly reduce energy consumption, and maintain an acceptable response time.
(Warner Archive Collection, $39.95, not rated) ALSO OUT THIS WEEK SILENT HOUSE The filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau ("Open Water") present a remake of the Uruguayan film "La Casa Muda," shot to appear as a single, continuous take in the manner of Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope," from 1948.
