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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Individual \In`di*vid"u*al\, n. 1. A single person, animal, or thing of any kind a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being a person. --Cowper. An object which is in the strict and primary sense one and can not be logically divided, is called an individual. --Whately. That individuals die, his will ordains. --Dryden. 2. (Zo["o]l.) a An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal. b The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Individual \In`di*vid"u*al\ (?; 135), a. [L. individuus indivisible; pref. in- not + dividuus divisible, fr dividere to divide: cf F. individuel. See {Divide}.] 1. Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one as an individual man, animal, or city. Mind has a being of its own distinct from that of all other things and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. --A. Tucker. United as one individual soul. --Milton. 2. Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to or characteristic of a single person or thing distinctive; as individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: individual adj 1: being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways" [ant: {common}] 2: separate and distinct from others of the same kind "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis" [syn: {case-by-case}, {item-by-item}] 3: characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing "an individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" [syn: {separate}, {single(a)}] 4: concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath" [syn: {individual(a)}, {private}] n 1: a human being "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: {person}, {someone}, {somebody}, {mortal}, {human}, {soul}] 2: a single organism
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