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A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
- He is an unusual individual.
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A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
- Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination […].
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An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
- It is typically held that chairs, trees, rocks, people and many of the so-called ‘everyday’ objects we encounter can be regarded as individuals.
- In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
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An element belonging to a population.
individual
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Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
- Near-synonyms: individuated, solitary, self-standing, freestanding
- As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.
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Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
- individual personal pension
- individual cream cakes
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Not divisible without losing its identity.
- Near-synonyms: unatomizable, indivisible, undividable