The ratio of maximal and minimal values in the vector W, called condition number, characterizes the singularity of A. If some values of W are zeros, matrix A is strictly singular, but it could be numerically close to singularity, or ill-conditioned, if the condition number is close to machine precision.
The effect of the Holocaust isn't singular but cumulative.
Singular but accessible, such pieces would do very well at retail, Mr. Burstell predicted.
"Beverly is singular but she has forbidden us to say 'encore,' " he said.
Amazon may be singular but perhaps not quite as peculiar as it claims.
His eye was singular, but his attitudes were standard issue: his road-tour typifyings of Americans reek of condescension.
After two days, we left, following Karma to a place just as singular but hidden by the land.
"Couple" can sometimes be construed as singular, but not as both singular and plural in the same sentence.
The cop had used the singular, but I pictured two burglars, minimum, what with all the heavy lifting.
"Urban bucolic" is how Joseph Carroll, the district manager of Community Board 1, described the area, adding that "it's economically singular but ethnically diverse".
Designers are partly to blame, often referring to their own creations in the singular, but this grammatical butchery has been spotted in print, too.
