single bond

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.

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single bond British  

noun

1. chem a covalent bond formed between two atoms by the sharing of one pair of electrons

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Example Sentences

But on a recent weekday, it counted just 13 inpatients clustered in a single ward.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

This time, shocked by his brawling, his publicity junket to the Pacific Coast, his high-handed method or turning the municipal administration over to his cronies, Newburyport did not vote "Lord" Andrew a single ward.

From Time Magazine Archive

He swept 56 of the state's 71 counties, every single ward in the city of Milwaukee, ten out of 18 Milwaukee suburbs, and he got 56.5% of the total vote.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes a single ward had its own tree, its own entertainment.

From The Street of Seven Stars by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Their palace was guarded by a few domestics, whom the array of a single shire, or of a single ward of London, could with ease have overpowered.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron