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uniqueness

(n): the quality of being one of a kind
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12 months ago sionnach said:

Yes, but singularity has some fairly sinister connotations that uniqueness doesn't:

# Astrophysics: A point in space-time at which gravitational forces cause matter to have infinite density and infinitesimal volume, and space and time to become infinitely distorted.

# Mathematics: A point at which the derivative does not exist for a given function but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists.

Another way of characterizing these behaviors might be to say that a singularity is the point where all hell breaks loose.

12 months ago SonofGroucho said:

Sort of like singularity.

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