Meaning of uniqueness in English

uniqueness

noun [ U ]

/juːˈniːk.nəs/ us

/juːˈniːk.nəs/

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the quality of being unique (= unusual, or special in some way):

The government doesn't understand the uniqueness of our situation and the need for bigger subsidies.

It is a story about the uniqueness of every individual.

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The job of parenting is the job of appreciating the uniqueness of individual children.
Our uniqueness lies in our freedom and an economy based on capitalism.
We agreed that uniqueness and individuality were more important than cost or size.

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Finally, we do, of course, need a uniqueness result for partial left adjoints.

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Specificity can be defined as the degree of uniqueness that a function shows towards an element, and an element towards a function, in discourse.

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We show here another important aspect, namely uniqueness of the computed solutions.

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We find weak and strong solutions of (1.8)-(1.12) and show the uniqueness.

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The uniqueness of solutions is still an open problem, mainly, because it is difficult to derive useful a priori bounds due to the quadratic nonlinearity.

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The existence of a global 1-form and its uniqueness implies that these singular holonomy groups are also solvable.

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The issues raised in this chapter are uniqueness, coreference, backward pronominalization and donkey anaphora.

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If you could make perfect copies of me, the existence of the replicas would destroy my uniqueness without lessening my worth or value.

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As uniqueness is obvious, - it only remains to show that preserves vertical composition.

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The progressive rock fanzine seems particularly amenable to the method, but is this to exaggerate its uniqueness?

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Before proceeding with the solution of equation (2.13), i t is imperative to examine the uniqueness of its solution.

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Before proceeding further with the integral equations (2.5) and (2.15), it is imperative to examine the uniqueness of their solution.

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This uniqueness does not forbid some re-use of operators.

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This implies, using classical results 1 2 concerning monotone operators (cf., for example, [17]), the existence and uniqueness of a solution.

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The uniqueness of the matching predicate symbol reflects the fact that register machines are deterministic.

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