{
  "id": "single.quantity",
  "term": "single",
  "sense": "quantity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "one thing that is alone",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "alone.state",
      "part.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "a part is in a place with no others",
    "novel_properties": [
      "uniqueness",
      "exclusivity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, remains a single spacecraft traveling through interstellar space beyond the heliosphere.",
      "domain": "space"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2020 eruption of Taal Volcano, only one island remained visible above water in the lake's main crater.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2013, Estonia's X-Road system linked all government databases into a single digital identity infrastructure.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "alone.state",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "single is a state of being alone"
    },
    {
      "id": "others.distinct-entities",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "single contrasts with having others"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "contradiction.logical",
    "four.cardinal",
    "individual.entity",
    "once.temporal",
    "unit.measurement"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "single",
    "singles"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-single.quantity"
}