Meaning of Singleton | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
2. A placename:
   countable, uncountable
3. A village and civil parish in Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3838).
   countable, uncountable
4. A hand containing only one card of a certain suit.
5. A suburb in Great Chart with Singleton parish, Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9841).
   countable, uncountable
6. A single object, especially one of a group.
7. A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8713).
   countable, uncountable
8. A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.
9. A town and local government area (Singleton Council) north-west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
   countable, uncountable
10. A set with exactly one element.
11. An outer southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
    countable, uncountable
12. A child or animal that is born singly, not as a twin or other multiple birth.
13. A habitational surname from Old English.
    countable, uncountable
14. A person without a romantic partner.
15. A person without a dissociative identity.
16. A single consonant, as opposed to a geminated consonant.
17. Synonym of blot.
18. A class offered only once within a school year.

Equivalents

Examples

“singleton preterm birth”

“Viable non-malformed singleton pregnancies were selected for cerebellar measurements; transcerebellar diameter, (TCD), left and right cerebellar diameters (LCD, RCD).”

“The time draws near when pink and red creep insidiously into the periphery, jewelry retailers go into overdrive and drugstore aisles burst with cherubs for the one holiday of the year that separates the singletons from the significant-othered.”

“Millennials and Gen Zedders’ approach to romance can teach later-life singletons a thing or two about new relationships, according to dating agent Anna Williamson.”

“singleton sonorants”

“[…] she busied herself in the front room, rustling about in Anne Kellaway’s box of buttony materials filled with rings of various sizes, chips of sheep horn for the Singletons, a ball of flax for shaping round buttons, bits of linen for covering them, both sharp and blunt needles, and several different colors and thicknesses of thread.”

“Graphs with diameter d and girth 2d#43;1 are known as Moore graphs. They were introduced by Hoffman and Singleton in a paper that can be viewed as one of the prime sources of algebraic graph theory.”

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