single-class
|sin-gle-class|
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/ˈsɪŋɡəl-klæs/
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/ˈsɪŋɡəl-klɑːs/
one class; single group
Etymology
'single-class' originates from English as a compound of 'single' and 'class'; 'single' ultimately comes from Old French 'sengle' (from Late Latin 'singulus') where 'singulus' meant 'one each', and 'class' originates from Latin 'classis' where 'classis' meant 'a division or group.'
'single' came into English via Old French (sengle) from Latin 'singulus'; 'class' entered English via Latin 'classis' (through French and Medieval Latin) meaning a division or group; the modern compound 'single-class' formed in contemporary English by combining these two elements.
Individually, 'single' originally meant 'one, individual' and 'class' meant 'division or group'; the compound 'single-class' came to mean 'involving or consisting of one class' in modern usage, especially in technical contexts like classification.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
a single class or category considered on its own (often used in contexts like datasets, classification problems, or social/group descriptions).
The dataset contained only a single-class, so we used one-class methods.
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Adjective 1
consisting of or relating to a single class or category (as opposed to multiple classes); involving only one class.
We evaluated a single-class classification task to detect anomalies.
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Last updated: 2025/11/25 11:00