Singleton — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. A placename: A village and civil parish in Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3838).

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2. A placename: A suburb in Great Chart with Singleton parish, Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9841).

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3. A placename: A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8713).

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4. A placename: A town and local government area (Singleton Council) north-west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

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5. A placename: An outer southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

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6. A habitational surname from Old English.

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   […] 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.