See Also: Individual(medicine)
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individual (iou)



individual adjective & noun. LME.
[medieval Latin individualis, from Latin individuus, from in- IN-3 + dividuus divisible (formed as DIVIDE verb): see -UAL.]
A. adjective.
One in substance or essence; indivisible. LME-L17.
That cannot be separated; inseparable. L16-M17.
Existing as a separate indivisible identity; numerically one; single, as distinct from others of the same kind; particular. E17.
Burke All powers delegated from the board to any individual servant of the company. T. Hardy So familiar with the spot that he knew..individual cows by their names.
b. Identical, self-same. M17-E19.
Of, pertaining or peculiar to a single person or thing, rather than a group; characteristic of an individual. E17.
individual variable Logic a variable that denotes various individuals.
M. Mitchell No public protest could be raised.., and individual protests were silenced with jail sentences. R. Ingalls He had died after an ordinary anaesthetic..all anyone could say in explanation was 'individual reaction'. B. Bettelheim All rules are based on generalizations, they disregard what is individual.
b. Intended to serve one person; designed to contain one portion. L19.
Listener We then took six individual dariole moulds, the kind used for baking little castle cakes.
Distinguished from others by qualities of its own; marked by a peculiar or striking character. M17.
G. Greene The writing seemed to him, after the copper-plate of the office, very individual.
b. noun.
A single thing or a group of things regarded as a unit; a single member of a class or group. E17.
b. A thing which is determined by properties peculiar to itself and cannot be subdivided into others of the same kind. E17.
c. Biology. An organism regarded as having a separate existence; a single member of a species, or of a colonial or compound organism. L18.
A single human being, as opp. to a group. E17.
A. S. Neill Individuals composing the crowd may be unanimous in hating the rules.
b. A human being, a person. M18.
F. Hume He appeared to be an exceedingly unpleasant individual. C. Hope Individuals arrived there in their private cars.
ellipt. One's individual person, self. M17-E19.