singleton
(noun) the playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt
singleton
(noun) a set containing a single member
singleton
(noun) a single object (as distinguished from a pair)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
(computing) A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.
(mathematics) A set with exactly one element.
A child or animal that is born singly, not as a twin or other multiple birth.
A person without a romantic partner.
A person without a dissociative identity.
(phonetics) A single consonant, as opposed to a geminated consonant.
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Singleton (plural Singletons)
A surname.
Source: Wiktionary
Sin"gle*ton, n.
Definition: In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
