singular point

American  

noun

Mathematics.

1. a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.

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Etymology

Origin of singular point

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

If you’ve been lucky enough to come across one of Harron Walker’s articles in her years as a journalist, you know that she has both a truly singular point of view and incisive wit.

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2025

“But the thing we’re predominately lacking in the role of the artistic leader is a singular point of truth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022

With its extravagance and excess, Shaw’s work will not be to everyone’s taste, yet demands to be taken seriously for its sincerity, its technique and its singular point of view.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2019

Whatever Girardi asks Tanaka, it will get back to a singular point: How do you feel?

From New York Times • May 28, 2015

I was like some two-dimensional being who might stand at the singular point of a Riemann's surface, and thus find himself in infinitesimal and inexplicable contact with a plane of existence not his own.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille