TERM AND TRANSLATION
singularity / singular point
singularité / point singuliersingularity / singular point
The site uses 奇点 for fields, series, and event distributions; 独异性 may describe irreducible singular character, with the French term used to disambiguate.
Atlas working translation
奇点
- French term
- singularité / point singulier
- English term
- singularity / singular point
Variants and search terms
- 奇异点Simplified record
- 特异点Simplified record
- 独异性Simplified record
- 奇异性Simplified record
- 奇點Traditional record
- 奇異點Traditional record
- 特異點Traditional record
- 獨異性Traditional record
- singularityCommon / non-Chinese record
- singular pointCommon / non-Chinese record
Conceptual boundary
A singularity is an impersonal event-point where a field changes direction, converges, or forks; personalities, figures, and spectacles are concrete expressions.
Sources and translations
- 01Gilles Deleuze, Logique du sens, Minuit, 1969
French primary text for event, surface, singularity, and Aion.
- 02Gilles Deleuze, Différence et répétition, PUF, 1968
French primary text.
- 03“德勒兹词典”中文社区语料
Community index for discovering regional and historical variants.
Open external source ↗ - 04Time-Image Research Atlas terminology policy, v1
Atlas terms govern prose, aliases remain searchable, and original-language forms accompany first use.