Usually means: Set containing exactly one element.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word singleton:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. singleton: Merriam-Webster
  2. singleton: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. singleton: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. singleton: Collins English Dictionary
  5. singleton: Vocabulary.com
  6. Singleton, singleton: Wordnik
  7. singleton: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Singleton, singleton: Wiktionary
  9. singleton: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. singleton: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. singleton: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. singleton: Dictionary.com
  13. singleton: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Singleton (cards), Singleton (global governance), Singleton (lifestyle), Singleton (mathematics), Singleton: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Singleton: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. singleton: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. singleton: Rhymezone
  18. Singleton: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. singleton: FreeDictionary.org
  20. singleton: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. singleton: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. singleton: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Singleton, Singleton: Game Dictionary
  2. Technopedia (No longer online)
  3. singleton: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. singleton: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. singleton: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. singleton: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. singleton, singleton: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. singleton: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Singleton: Fifthchair Bridge
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (playing cards) A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
noun:  (playing cards) A hand containing only one card of a certain suit.
noun:  A single object, especially one of a group.
noun:  (computing) A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.
noun:  (mathematics) A set with exactly one element.
noun:  A child or animal that is born singly, not as a twin or other multiple birth.
noun:  A person without a romantic partner.
noun:  A person without a dissociative identity.
noun:  (phonetics) A single consonant, as opposed to a geminated consonant.
noun:  (backgammon) Synonym of blot
noun:  (uncountable) A placename:
noun:  A village and civil parish in Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3838).
noun:  A suburb in Great Chart with Singleton parish, Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9841).
noun:  A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8713).
noun:  A town and local government area (Singleton Council) north-west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
noun:  An outer southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
noun:  A habitational surname from Old English.

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