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In music:

• "Single", song by Everything but the Girl from their 1996 album Walking Wounded
• Single (music), song release
• Single (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2004/2006 song by Natasha Bedingfield
• Single coil, electromagnetic guitar pickup type

In sports: A term used in first aid and triage to indicate injured persons who are of a relatively low priority. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Single is the debut U.K. single from Natasha Bedingfields debut album Unwritten. ... This closeup shows three traditional single coil pickups on Stratocaster guitar. ...

• Single (baseball), the most common type of base hit
• Single (cricket), point in cricket
• Single (football), Canadian football point

In other fields: In baseball, a single is the most common type of base hit, accomplished through the act of a batter safely reaching first base by striking the ball and getting to first before being made out, without the benefit of a fielders misplay (see error) or another runner being put... In the sport of cricket, a single is scored when the batsman take one run, either following a successful shot (with the the run attributed to the on-strike batsman) or when running for a bye or leg bye (counted as an extra). ... In Canadian football, a single or single point is scored when the ball is kicked into the end zone by any legal means, other than a successful field goal, and the receiving team does not return the ball out of the end zone. ...

• Single (locomotive), steam locomotive with a single pair of driving wheels
• Single (relationship), person not married or in a romantic relationship
• Single precision, computer numbering format that occupies one storage location in computer memory at a given address

In railway terminology, a single is a steam locomotive with a single pair of driving wheels. ... In relationships, a single person is one that is not married, or, more broadly, that they are not in an exclusive romantic relationship. ... In computing, single precision is a computer numbering format that occupies one storage locations in computer memory at address. ...

See also

• Single-ended (disambiguation)
• Singles

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