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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