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unique

adj
/juːˈniːk/

Etymology

Borrowed from French unique, from Latin unicus. Doublet of unic.

  1. derived from unicus
  2. borrowed from unique

Definitions

  1. Being the only one of its kind

    Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.

    • Every person has a unique life, therefore every person has a unique journey.
    • 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;

  2. Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.

  3. Particular, characteristic.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Rare or unusual.

      • 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.

    2. A thing without a like

      A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled; one of a kind.

      • The phoenix, the unique of birds.
      • […] uniques of the game, Sauron and Morgoth, are found on levels 99 and 100 of the dungeon respectively, […]

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Derived

non-unique, uniq fruit, unique factorization domain, unique factorization ring, unique-headed bug, unique identification number, unique identifier, unique key, uniquel, uniqueness, uniquify, uniquity, universally unique identifier

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unique. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01unique02holder03permanently04lastingly05persists06persist07resolutely08determined09decided10unmistakable

A definitional loop anchored at unique. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at unique

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA