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{{also|singleton}}
==English==
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===Etymology===
From {{der|en|ang|sċingul||shingle}} + {{m|ang|tūn||enclosure; settlement, town}}.

===Proper noun===
{{en-prop|~|s}}

# {{lb|en|uncountable}} A [[placename]]:
## {{place|en|village/and/civil parish|in|bor/Fylde|co/Lancashire|cc/England}} {{q|[[OS]] grid ref SD3838}}. <ref>[https://maps.walkingclub.org.uk/admin/lancashire/fylde/singleton-parish.html Parish map (Lancashire)]</ref>
## {{place|en|suburb|in|par/Great Chart with Singleton|bor/Ashford|co/Kent|cc/England}} {{q|OS grid ref TQ9841}}.
## {{place|en|village/and/cpar|in|dist/Chichester|co/West Sussex|cc/England}} {{q|OS grid ref SU8713}}. <ref>[https://maps.walkingclub.org.uk/admin/west-sussex/chichester/singleton-parish.html Parish map (West Sussex)]</ref>
## {{place|en|town/and/lgarea|({{w|Singleton Council}}) north-west of|city/Newcastle|s/New South Wales|c/Australia}}.
## {{place|en|outer southern suburb|city/Perth|s/Western Australia}}.
# {{surname|en|[[habitational]]|from=Old English}}.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=w:Tracy Chevalier|title=Burning Bright|location=New York|publisher=Dutton|section=Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 126|url=https://archive.org/details/burningbright00chev
|passage={{...}} 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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2013|author=Chris Godsil; Gordon F. Royle|title='''Algebraic Graph Theory'''|pageurl=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GeSPBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22algebraic+graph+theory%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjv-4mNuszsAhUQVH0KHUwUA9gQ6AEwAnoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=%22algebraic%20graph%20theory%22&f=false|page=77|publisher=Springer
|passage=Graphs with diameter <math>d</math> and [[girth]] <math>2d+1</math> are known as [[Moore graph]]s. They were introduced by Hoffman and '''Singleton''' in a paper that can be viewed as one of the prime sources of algebraic graph theory.}}

====Statistics====
* According to the 2010 United States Census, ''Singleton'' is the 622<sup>nd</sup> most common surname in the United States, belonging to 54621 individuals. ''Singleton'' is most common among Black/African American (48.62%) and White (45.91%) individuals.

===References===
* {{R:en:DAFN}}
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==German==

===Noun===
{{de-noun|n,,s}}

# {{lb|de|software}} [[singleton]]
# {{lb|de|software|design}} [[singleton pattern]]

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|multiton}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:Duden}}