SINGLETON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does singleton mean? 

• SINGLETON (noun)
  The noun SINGLETON has 3 senses:

1. a single object (as distinguished from a pair)

2. a set containing a single member

3. the playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt

  Familiarity information: SINGLETON used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINGLETON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A single object (as distinguished from a pair)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("singleton" is a kind of...):

1; ace; I; one; single; unity (the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "singleton"):

fellow; mate (one of a pair)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A set containing a single member

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("singleton" is a kind of...):

set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("singleton" is a kind of...):

playing card (one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games)

 Context examples 

For the current study, researchers compared such lifestyle factors as cigarette use, caffeinated beverage consumption and multivitamin use among 344 couples with a singleton pregnancy from the weeks before they conceived through the seventh week of pregnancy.

(Couples’ pre-pregnancy caffeine consumption linked to miscarriage risk, NIH)