Individual

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1. Adjective

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.

2. Adjective

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.

3. Noun

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.

4. Noun

An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.

5. Noun

The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.

6. Adjective

being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways"
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