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unique
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French unique.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ju??ni?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
Adjective
unique (comparative uniquer or more unique, superlative uniquest or most unique)
- (not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
- Synonyms: one of a kind, sui generis, singular
- Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
- Particular, characteristic.
- (proscribed) Of a rare quality, unusual.
Usage notes
- The comparative and superlative forms uniquer or more unique and uniquest or most unique, as well as the use of unique with modifiers as in fairly unique and very unique, are grammatically proscribed, with the reasoning that either something is unique or it is not.
Derived terms
- uniquely
- uniqueness
- uniquity
Related terms
- unicity
- one-of-a-kind
- inimitable
Translations
Noun
unique (plural uniques)
- A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled; one of a kind.
- a. 1859, Thomas De Quincey, Language
- The phoenix, the unique of birds.
- a. 1859, Thomas De Quincey, Language
Translations
Further reading
- unique in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- unique in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “unique” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?nicus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.nik/
Adjective
unique (plural uniques)
- unique
- only
Derived terms
Related terms
- un
Descendants
- ? Danish: unik
- ? Dutch: uniek
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: unik
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: unik
- ? Swedish: unik
- ? Turkish: ünik
Further reading
- “unique” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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autapomorphy
English
Etymology
From aut- +? apomorphy.
Noun
autapomorphy (plural autapomorphies)
- (cladistics) A derived trait that is unique to a particular taxon
Derived terms
- autapomorphic
See also
- synapomorphy
autapomorphy From the web:
- what does autapomorphy mean
- apomorphy and synapomorphy
- what is an apomorphy of angiosperms
- what is mean autapomorphy
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