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Adjective
/ˌindəˈvijəwəl/,
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Single; separate,
  1. Single; separate
    • - individual tiny flowers
  2. Of or for a particular person
    • - the individual needs of the children
  3. Designed for use by one person
    • - individual serving dishes
  4. Characteristic of a particular person or thing
    • - individual traits of style
  5. Having a striking or unusual character; original
    • - she creates her own, highly individual, landscapes
Noun
  1. A single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family
    • - boat trips for parties and individuals
  2. A single member of a class
    • - they live in a group or as individuals, depending on the species
  3. A person of a specified kind
    • - the most selfish, egotistical individual I have ever met
  4. A distinctive or original person


  1. being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways"
  2. person: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
  3. a single organism
  4. separate and distinct from others of the same kind; "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis"
  5. characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed"
  6. individual(a): concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath"
  7. As commonly used, an individual is a person or any specific object in a collection. In the 15th century and earlier, and also today within the fields of statistics and metaphysics, individual means "indivisible", typically describing any numerically singular thing, but sometimes meaning "a ...
  8. (The Individuals (Chicago band)) The Individuals are a Chicago based Rap/Hip hop/Reggae band. Ando Tha Don, Big Lou, Raw Bizness, and T.C.O. are the current members of what started as a six member act. Their record label is Rule the World Records.
  9. (The Individuals (New Jersey band)) The Individuals were a Hoboken, New Jersey-based band led by Glenn Morrow (guitar, vocals, sax, keyboards) and featuring Janet Wygal (bass, vocals, guitar, keyboards), Janet's brother Doug Wygal (drums, percussion), and Jon Light Klages (lead guitar, keyboards ...
  10. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people; A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation; Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one; Intended for a single person as opposed to more than ...
  11. (Individuals) Also called particulars are single things (e.g., Socrates) as opposed to properties or kinds of things, or (humanity or humankind). The latter are universals. Individuals are typically the sorts of things named by proper names (e.g. ...
  12. (Individuals) Alphaeus · Anna · Annas · Barabbas · Bartimaeus · Blind man, Bethsaida · Caiaphas · Cleopas · Devil · Dismas · Elizabeth · Gabriel · "Gestas," thief · Jairus' Daughter · Joachim · Joanna · John the Baptist · Joseph · Joseph of Arimathea · Joses · Jude · Lazarus · Legion · Luke · ...
  13. (Individuals) Major perpetrators · Nazi ideologues
  14. (Individuals) Such as Beavouir * Bergson * Derrida * Durkheim * Foucault * Kristeva * Lacan * Lévi-Strauss * Mauss * Sartre
  15. (Individuals) The firm will examine the alternatives to bankruptcies, and advises and acts as Trustee for Insolvents pursuant to Part 5 Subpart 2 of the Insolvency Act 2006.
  16. (Individuals) The objects or elements taken as the subjects of the predicates of first-order predicate logic. See constant; domain; variable.
  17. (Individuals) are human beings, a priori equal.
  18. (Individuals) in removal proceedings may use the CAT to avoid removal (deportation) through a claim that returning them to their country of nationality puts them at risk for torture.
  19. (Individuals) including health care practitioners and other persons with a strong interest in nutrition, can subscribe to SearchNutrition. ...
  20. (Individuals) the basic or "ground level" objects
  21. (Individuals) what people are because everyone else is. /
  22. Individua, i.e., indivisum in se, is that which, unlike the higher branches in the tree of Porphyry, genus and species, cannot be further subdivided. Boethius in giving his definition does not seem to attach any further signification to the word. It is merely synonymous with singularis.
  23. a person, sole trader, self-employed or a partner in a partnership; individuals are not liable for Corporation Tax
  24. n. persona física (or natural); individual
  25. Includes the client, a family member, friend, or any other individual not included in the other categories.