- 1
A singleton is a single one of something, when you'd usually expect a pair or a group — in card games, a singleton is having only one card of a suit in your hand. In everyday talk, it can mean a person who isn't in a romantic relationship, similar to "single person." In science and , a singleton is a set or group that has only one member.
單身的人；只有一個的東西；（統計、遺傳學）單一個體
組成single + -ton (an old ending whose exact origin here isn't fully clear).
同家族的字
- singlesingleton is built from this word
原始詞典資料18 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Singletonname
- 1
A placename:
- 2
A placename:
- 3
A placename:
- 4
A placename:
- 5
A placename:
- 6
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 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.
singletonnoun/ˈsɪŋ.ɡ(ə)l.tən/
- 1
A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
- 2
A hand containing only one card of a certain suit.
- 3
A single object, especially one of a group.
- 4
computingengineeringmathematicsA class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.
- 5
mathematicssciencesA set with exactly one element.
- 6
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).
- 7
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.
- 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.
- 8
A person without a dissociative identity.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
- 9
human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsA single consonant, as opposed to a geminated consonant.
- singleton sonorants
- 10
backgammongamesSynonym of blot.
- 11
educationA class offered only once within a school year.
singletonadj/ˈsɪŋ.ɡ(ə)l.tən/
- 1
educationOf a class offered only once within a school year.
- a singleton class
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。