singlet

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You're probably thinking of old singlet designs from centuries back.

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Quick take

a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body

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noun

a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for singlet.

noun

a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body

Example sentences

You're probably thinking of old singlet designs from centuries back.

A light skinned person in a singlet standing outside at noon for 30 minutes will produce between 10,000IU and 20,000IU in their skin.

I study the theory of singlet fission with collaborators at Brookhaven.

You need a 1-D electronic theory to describe singlet fission - talking about wavefunctions is meaningless when you're in a bosonic sector.

I'll always remember Michael rollerblading through Champaign-Urbana in his trademark ruby spandex singlet.

There is "singlet" oxygen which is typically depicted as O=O, but it's actually O triple-bond O with two antibonding electrons that negate one of the 'triple' bonds which makes it effectively O=O but very different in reality.

For example, just because some of the electrons end up in a triplet state doesn't mean all of them will: they've measured the singlet states as rapidly decaying, and therefore they'll have essentially the same trouble will harvesting them as other photovoltaics have.