singlet

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A teddy power singlet, an orange pair of shorts and no shoes.

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  1. noun Chiefly British A man's jersey undershirt.
  2. noun Physics A multiplet with a single member.

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  • He wore a singlet, braces dangling, the same smeared slippers, belly protruberant, stained trousers. —  dummy 3
  • “I'm going to shower.” He stripped out of his singlet, put on the breathing mask and stepped into the coffin-sized closet, luxuriating in the gently pressurized spray that kneaded his body from all directions, draining tensions from his muscles with steaming heat. —  Asimov'sSF,Jan2004
  • “What happened to Panne/Lorenzo?” She realized she was simply holding her singlet, blushed deeply, and struggled into it. —  FSF,August2005
  • LFP (266 nm) of 1a in glassy 3-methylpentane at 77 K releases singlet ortho-biphenylnitrene (1b) (lambdamax = 410 nm, tau = 59 + - 6 ns), which under these conditions decays cleanly to the lower energy triplet state. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The lifetime of singlet ortho-biphenylnitrene was 16 ps in acetonitrile and was not affected by perdeuteration of the aryl ring. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. from single + -et; apparently formed in imitation of doublet.
 

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/ˈsɪŋglɛt/
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