singulate

English

Adjective

singulate (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to being single (not in a marriage).
   • 1966, Philippine Sociological Review, page 7:

     […] of the procedure in the present analysis is limited to a comparison of Hajnal’s “singulate” means for the 1948 and 1960 Census data.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2014, Kenneth W. Wachter, Essential Demographic Methods, Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 211:

     The same equivalence holds between singulate means (adding bars) and ordinary means (adding bands), whether we work with averages _nS_x or exact-age values s_x.

Derived terms

• SMAFM (singulate mean age at first marriage)
• SMAM (singulate mean age at marriage)

Verb

singulate (third-person singular simple present singulates, present participle singulating, simple past and past participle singulated)

1. To isolate from others; to separate off as a single item.
   • 1980, Miscellaneous Publication, page 57:

     This device singulates the kernels permiting^[sic] them to pass single file over a photo sensor (photodiode array) used to evaluate length.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2002, Logging & Sawmilling Journal, page 24:

     Cleans debris as it unscrambles & singulates logs

   • 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:

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

Related terms

• singulation