Singularized

Singularized is the past participle form of the verb singularize. As an adjective, it describes something that has been made singular or expressed in a singular form. The term is used mainly in linguistic and computational contexts, where discussions of number and form are common.

In linguistic morphology, singularization refers to the operation of converting a word from a plural or non-singular form to its singular lemma. In natural language processing and lexicography, singularized forms are often produced during lemmatization, a normalization step that reduces words to their canonical base forms. For example, plural nouns such as geese, mice, and children may be singularized to goose, mouse, and child in analysis or indexing. The process can also apply to nouns that behave as mass or count nouns in different contexts. The reciprocal process is pluralization, which yields plural forms from a singular base.

Because many languages exhibit irregular plurals and context-dependent number marking, singularization can require lexical knowledge or morphological analysis rather than relying solely on simple rules. In practice, the term singularized is more often encountered as a descriptor in discussions of lemmatization, data normalization, and corpus processing than as a common everyday term.

See also: singular, plural, lemmatization, normalization, singularization in mathematics.