single-valued [sing-guh l-val-yood] WORD ORIGIN adjective Mathematics. (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range. Liberaldictionary.com What It Really Means to Call Someone "Crude" Can You Translate These Famous Phrases From Emoji? These Are the Longest Words in English These Are the Saddest Phrases in English Compare many-valued. Origin of single-valued First recorded in 1875–80 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019