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Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain (1952) is an MGM musical comedy co-directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen about Hollywood's silent-to-sound transition, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, and Jean Hagen, later ranked the greatest movie musical.
Singin' in the Rain (song)
"Singin' in the Rain" is a 1920s song by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, best known as the title song of the 1952 film with Gene Kelly.
Singin' to an Empty Chair
Singin' to an Empty Chair is the sixth studio album by Chicago indie rock band Ratboys, released February 6, 2026 on New West Records; produced by Chris Walla, titled after the Gestalt empty chair therapy technique, addressing estrangement.
Singing
Singing is musical sound produced by the human voice via vibrating vocal folds and vocal tract resonance. Found in every observed society; origins predate certainty, with solo and choral modes acoustically distinct.
Singing Revolution
The Singing Revolution (1987–1991), also called the Third Awakening or Sajudis Time, was the nonviolent independence movement in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, driven by mass patriotic singing, song festivals, and the 1989 two-million-person Baltic Way human chain, ending Soviet rule in 1991.
Singing Sandra
Singing Sandra (Sandra DesVignes-Millington, 1957–2021) was a Trinidadian calypsonian who won the Calypso Monarch title in 1999 and 2003, the only woman to win it twice.
Singing voice synthesis
Singing voice synthesis, also known as SVS, is the task of generating sung vocals from a music score, with input of lyrics, note pitch, and note duration.
Singkawang (山口洋)
Singkawang (山口洋, Hakka San-Khew-Jong) is a coastal city in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, of about 504 km² and over 250,000 people, known for its Hakka-Chinese heritage, the Cap Go Meh tatung festival, and its reputation as a tolerant multicultural city.
Singkep Island
Singkep Island (Pulau Singkep) is a 757-square-kilometer island in Indonesia's Lingga Archipelago, Riau Islands Province, separated from Sumatra by the Berhala Strait and known for its tin mining era.
Singkut
Singkut is a Quaternary volcanic caldera in North Sumatra, Indonesia (GVP 261070, Sunda Arc), also known through its cone Sibayak. It formed ~44 ka in a VEI 6 eruption (~26 km³ DRE), last erupted in 1881, hosts Berastagi and the Sibayak geothermal field, and rises to 2,181 m.
Single (film)
#Single is a 2025 Telugu romantic comedy directed by Caarthick Raju, starring Sree Vishnu, Ketika Sharma, Ivana, and Vennela Kishore; released 9 May 2025, grossed ₹35.28 crore, streamed on Prime Video from 6 June 2025.
Single (music)
Single (music): a short release built around one featured song, from the seven-inch 45 rpm RCA disc of 1949 to today's one-to-three-track streaming releases under 30 minutes, with A-side/B-side history, chart rules, and release practice.
Single All the Way
Single All the Way is a 2021 Netflix Christmas romantic comedy directed by Michael Mayer, written by Chad Hodge, starring Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, and Kathy Najimy; Netflix's first original gay Christmas movie, GLAAD Award winner.
Single and double layer potentials
Single and double layer potentials write solutions of elliptic partial differential equations as surface integrals over a domain's boundary, using a fundamental solution and a density.
Single and double-net leases
Single net (N) and double net (NN) leases are commercial lease structures where the tenant pays base rent plus property taxes (N) or taxes plus building insurance (NN), between gross and triple net (NNN) leases; terms lack standardized definitions.
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961, amended 1972): UN treaty limiting narcotic drugs to medical and scientific purposes; created the INCB; 186 parties; bedrock of the UN drug control regime with the 1971 and 1988 conventions.
Single crystal
A single crystal, also called a monocrystalline solid, is a material whose crystal lattice is continuous and uninterrupted throughout, with no grain boundaries, unlike polycrystalline solids.
Single crystal X-ray diffraction
Single crystal X-ray diffraction is an analytical technique that directs a monochromatic X-ray beam at a single crystal, yielding atomic coordinates, bond lengths, and absolute configuration.
Single Day-Ahead Coupling
Single Day-Ahead Coupling is the pan-European day-ahead electricity market coupling that allocates cross-border transmission capacity via implicit auctions, run by NEMOs and TSOs under the CACM framework.
Single displacement reaction
A single displacement reaction, also called a single replacement reaction, is a chemical reaction in which one element replaces another in a compound, such as zinc displacing hydrogen from hydrochloric acid.
Single Drunk Female
Single Drunk Female is a Freeform comedy-drama (2022-2023) created by Simone Finch, starring Sofia Black-D'Elia as recovering alcoholic Samantha Fink and Ally Sheedy as her mother Carol; cancelled after two seasons.
Single Embryo Transfer
Single embryo transfer (SET, elective eSET) places one IVF embryo per cycle to avoid multiple pregnancy; fresh live birth is lower than double transfer but cumulative outcomes match, and ESHRE, NICE, and ASRM recommend it for good-prognosis patients.
Single episode depressive disorder
Single episode depressive disorder is an ICD-11 diagnosis (code 6A70) for a person who has had exactly one depressive episode, with no prior episodes and no history of mania.
Single Euro Payments Area
The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is a harmonized payments area covering 41 European countries, including non-EU ones like Switzerland and the United Kingdom, under one scheme rulebook.
Single European Act
The Single European Act is a treaty signed in 1986 that made the first major revision of the Treaty of Rome and committed the European Community to a single internal market by 1992.
Single European Sky
The Single European Sky (SES) is a European Union initiative, launched in 2004, to replace fragmented national airspaces with a harmonized, performance-driven air traffic management system.
Single European Sky ATM Research
Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) is the European Union's program for modernizing air traffic management, launched as the technological pillar of the Single European Sky.
Single flux quantum
Single flux quantum (SFQ) is a superconducting digital logic scheme in which voltage pulses, each integrating to exactly one magnetic flux quantum, carry information; RSFQ logic, introduced in 1985, is its best-known form.
Single in Seoul (싱글 인 서울)
Single in Seoul (싱글 인 서울) is a 2023 South Korean romantic comedy directed by Park Bum-su, starring Lee Dong-wook, Lim Soo-jung, and Esom, about an influencer and an editor making a book on single life; released November 29, 2023, 103 minutes, 400,681 admissions.
Single instruction, multiple data
Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is a computer architecture class, one of the four categories of Flynn's 1966 taxonomy, in which one instruction operates on many data elements simultaneously.