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Individual
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- 1 Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
"Near-synonyms: individuated, solitary, self-standing, freestanding"
- 2 Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
"individual personal pension"
- 3 Not divisible without losing its identity.
"Near-synonyms: unatomizable, indivisible, undividable"
- 1 being or characteristic of a single thing or person wordnet
- 2 concerning one person exclusively wordnet
- 3 characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing wordnet
- 1 A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
"He is an unusual individual."
- 2 a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential wordnet
- 3 A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
"Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination […]."
- 4 a single organism wordnet
- 5 An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
"It is typically held that chairs, trees, rocks, people and many of the so-called ‘everyday’ objects we encounter can be regarded as individuals."
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- 6 An element belonging to a population.
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of indīviduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + dīviduus (“divisible”), from dīvidō (“divide”).
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of indīviduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + dīviduus (“divisible”), from dīvidō (“divide”).
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