That's a dimension that has a length of 1. For example, if you had a 3D image that is 400 rows by 1 column by 200 slices, the second dimension (columns) would be a singleton since it's one. You'd have only one image plane running in the y-z direction (rows-slices). You can get back to a 2D image by using squeeze() to remove the singleton dimension.
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