The difference between Individual and Shared
When used as adjectives, individual means relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one, whereas shared means used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.
Individual is also noun with the meaning: a person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
check bellow for the other definitions of Individual and Shared
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Individual as a noun:
A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
Examples:
"He is an unusual individual."
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Individual as a noun (legal):
A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
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Individual as a noun:
An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
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Individual as a noun (statistics):
An element belonging to a population.
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Individual as an adjective:
Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
Examples:
"As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one."
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Individual as an adjective:
Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
Examples:
"'individual personal pension; individual cream cakes"
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Individual as an adjective:
Not divisible without losing its identity.
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Shared as an adjective:
Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.
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Shared as a verb: