singleton
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- noun
- /ˈsɪŋɡlˌtoʊn/
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singleton
- A singleton pregnancy refers to when a woman carries only one baby at a time.
- singleton births
- singleton pregnancy
- singleton infants
Every vertex is its own part, a Singleton partition, and you can check that that partition satisfies the properties.
- Every vertex is its own part, a Singleton partition, and you can check that that partition satisfies the properties.
Examples
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The programmer implemented a singleton design pattern to ensure only one instance of the class could exist.
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In both groups, only singleton babies were included.
Academic text (2008) -
We knew the babies were going to come early compared to a singleton pregnancy.
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All right, solution to B&B, we're asked to find the closure of the Singleton set containing A.
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All pregnancies were singleton and uncomplicated.
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The average PPD response of patients with singleton strains was considered the baseline.
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We examined claims of fully insured women participating in medical and dental insurance plans who delivered live births from singleton pregnancies between January 1, 2003, and September 30, 2006.
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Between April 1988 and January 1989, 965 women with singleton pregnancies were recruited for a birth cohort study in Aarhus, Denmark (Olsen et al. 1995).
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In mathematics, a singleton is a set that contains exactly one element.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word singleton comes from the simple word single, which means 'one' or 'alone', plus a noun ending; in math and computer science it keeps that idea, so a singleton is a set with exactly one thing inside it.