unique
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French unique.
Pronunciation [edit]
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- Rhymes: -iːk
Adjective [edit]
unique (comparative more unique, superlative most unique)
- (not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
- 1978, Jimmy Carter, Proclamation 4611:
- Admiralty Island contains unique resources of scientific interest which need protection to assure continued opportunities for study.
- 2002, The American Practical Navigator:
- GPS assigns a unique C/A code and a unique P code to each satellite.
- 1941, Allen v. Walt Disney:
- 3. Both were written and published with the same unique chorus structure;
4. Both compositions were written and published with the same unique harmonic structure;
- 3. Both were written and published with the same unique chorus structure;
- 1920, Robert W. Lawson, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, translation of original by Albert Einstein:
- Perhaps the reader will wonder why we have placed our " beings " on a sphere rather than on another closed surface. But this choice has its justification in the fact that, of all closed surfaces, the sphere is unique in possessing the property that all points on it are equivalent.
- 1978, Jimmy Carter, Proclamation 4611:
- Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
- (disputed) Of a rare quality.
- 1950, J.D. Salinger, For Esmé—With Love and Squalor:
- And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique, the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch.
- 1950, J.D. Salinger, For Esmé—With Love and Squalor:
- (disputed) Unusual.
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Translations [edit]
one of a kind
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Noun [edit]
unique (plural uniques)
- A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled.
- De Quincey
- The phoenix, the unique of birds.
- De Quincey
External links [edit]
- unique in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- unique in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- “unique” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin unicus.
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
unique (masculine and feminine, plural uniques)
