Is there a name meaning "not a singleton"?

Question

Is there a name meaning "not a singleton"?

Answer 1

Multipleton?</facetious>

A more serious answer: if there is such a term, I've never heard of it; I would just say non-singleton (or even, I dare say, normal/standard/regular :-P) myself.

Answer 2

decepticon.

ahem sorry, sorry.

No there isn't (if you think about it singletons are the extraordinary case), but simpleton was another interesting suggestion.

Answer 3

Multi-Instance ?

http://elegantcode.com/2008/04/17/the-opposite-of-a-singleton/

Answer 4

Castle Windsor uses the term "transient" to describe all non-Singleton objects.

I personally prefer the term "non-Singleton" though.

Answer 5

Simply, a 'Single Instance of a Class.'

Answer 6

Actually, there is a variant on the Singleton called Multiton or Multiplton or something like that. Rather than having one instance, you have n instances where n is a specific value. I'm not sure if the Gang of Four describe this application in their book, but I learned about it in my Software Engineering 361 class.

But if you have an unconstrained number of instances, I don't think there is a name for it.

Answer 7

A Marriedton?

I would just call it an Object. The fact that you don't call it a Singleton implies that there may be more than one instance.

Answer 8

Prototype. It is used as a scope in Spring framework to identify dependency which will always be new instance when injected.

Answer 9

A Polyton?

Answer 10

When someone asks me if a class is a Singleton (and it isn't), I just say no, it's a regular class.

Answer 11

Yes, there is a Multiton pattern, but it means something very specific. It's not simply everything that's not a Singleton.