singleton

UK/ˈsɪŋ.ɡ(ə)l.tən/

singleton noun: a playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.

Noun

singleton (plural singletons)

(playing cards) A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
(playing cards) A hand containing only one card of a certain suit.
A single object, especially one of a group.
A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.
A set with exactly one element.
A child or animal that is born singly, not as a twin or other multiple birth.
- singleton preterm birth
- Viable non-malformed singleton pregnancies were selected for cerebellar measurements; transcerebellar diameter, (TCD), left and right cerebellar diameters (LCD, RCD).2015 October 23, “Periconception Maternal Folate Status and Human Embryonic Cerebellum Growth Trajectories: The Rotterdam Predict Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
A person without a romantic partner.
- 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.2012 February 11, Katie Gile, “I hate/love Valentine’s Day”, in Spinnaker, Jacksonville, Fla.: University of North Florida, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2020
- 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.2022 August 14, “Lessons in love”, in The Sunday People
A person without a dissociative identity.

Synonyms:

singlet
A single consonant, as opposed to a geminated consonant.
- singleton sonorants
Synonym of blot.

Synonyms:

blot
A class offered only once within a school year.

Adjective

singleton (comparative more singleton, superlative most singleton)

Of a class offered only once within a school year.
- a singleton class

Proper noun capitalized: Singleton

Singleton (countable and uncountable, plural Singletons)

A village and civil parish in Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3838).
A suburb in Great Chart with Singleton parish, Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9841).
A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8713).
A town and local government area (Singleton Council) north-west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
An outer southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
A habitational surname from Old English.
- […] 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...2007, Tracy Chevalier, Burning Bright, New York: Dutton, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 126
- 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.2013, Chris Godsil, Gordon F. Royle, Algebraic Graph Theory, Springer, page 77

singleton meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

singleton in Hindi

सिंगलटन, सिंगलटॉन

singleton in Tamil

சிங்கிள்டன், சிங்கில்டன்

singleton in Marathi

सिंगलटन, सिंगलटॉन

singleton in Urdu

سنگلٹن

More languagesFewer languages

singleton in Bengali: সিঙ্গেলটন, সিঙ্গলটন
singleton in Telugu: సింగిల్టన్
singleton in Malayalam: സിംഗിൾടൺ, സിംഗിൾട്ടൺ
singleton in Kannada: ಸಿಂಗಲ್ಟನ್
singleton in Punjabi: ਸਿੰਗਲਟਨ, ਇੱਕ ਸਿੰਗਲਟਨ, ਸਿੰਗਲਟੌਨ
singleton in Gujarati: સિંગલટન, સિંગલટોન, સિંગલટૉન
singleton in Odia: ସିଙ୍ଗଲଟନ୍, ସିଙ୍ଗେଲଟନ୍
singleton in Nepali: सिङ्गलटन, सिंगलटन

Examples of singleton in a sentence

In the category of sets, a terminal object is any singleton, since there exists a unique function, namely the constant function, from any given set into that singleton.
Singleton methods in Ruby live in a special, hidden class called the singleton class (it used to be referred to as the eigenclass, but singleton class is the current term).
An EDT is a special case of ADT where each product type is a singleton.

All 14 example sentences with singleton

Synonyms of singleton

singlet
blot

Antonyms

wedder

Forms of singleton

Noun
plural	singletons
Adjective
comparative	more singleton
superlative	most singleton
Proper noun
plural	Singletons

Plural of singleton: singletons

Origin of singleton

From single + -ton, probably following the model of simpleton.

From Middle English shyngel (“shingle”) + toun (“town”).

Words formed from singleton

Phrases with singleton

Questions about singleton

What does singleton mean?: Singleton means a playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
What is singleton in Hindi?: Singleton in Hindi is सिंगलटन, सिंगलटॉन. See Singleton meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is singleton?: Singleton can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce singleton?: Singleton is pronounced /ˈsɪŋ.ɡ(ə)l.tən/ (UK).
What is the plural of singleton?: The plural of singleton is singletons.

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