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Singleton
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singleton
English
Etymology
From en enm shyngel shingle + enm toun town.
Proper noun
~ s
en uncountable A placename:
en village/and/civil parish in bor/Fylde co/Lancashire cc/England OS grid ref SD3838. Parish map (Lancashire)
en suburb in par/Great Chart with Singleton bor/Ashford co/Kent cc/England OS grid ref TQ9841.
en village/and/cpar in dist/Chichester co/West Sussex cc/England OS grid ref SU8713. Parish map (West Sussex)
en town/and/lgarea (Singleton Council) north-west of city/Newcastle s/New South Wales c/Australia.
en outer southern suburb city/Perth s/Western Australia.
en habitational Old English.
en 2007 w:Tracy Chevalier Burning Bright New York Dutton Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 126 https://archive.org/details/burningbright00chev 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.
en 2013 Chris Godsil; Gordon F. Royle Algebraic Graph Theory 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 77 Springer Graphs with diameter and girth 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.
Derived terms
en Singleton Heights Singleton Merten syndrome Singleton Military Area Singletons Mill
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Singleton is the 622nd 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
German
Noun
n,,s
de software singleton
de software design singleton pattern
Related terms
en multiton
Further reading