Matching may refer to: *

Matching, Essex Matching is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England centred in countryside east of Harlow's modern town centre and from Old Harlow/Harlow Mills area of the town. The terrain is elevated and London is centred ...

, England **

Matching Green Matching Green is a village and the largest settlement in the civil parish of Matching, in Essex, England. It is east of Harlow, north-west of Chipping Ongar and south-east of Sawbridgeworth. Matching Green has one of the largest village gr ...

** Matching Tye *

Matching (graph theory) In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, a matching or independent edge set in an undirected graph is a set of edges without common vertices. Finding a matching in a bipartite graph can be treated as a network flow problem. Definit ...

, in graph theory, a set of edges without common vertices *

Graph matching Graph matching is the problem of finding a similarity between graphs.Endika Bengoetxea"Inexact Graph Matching Using Estimation of Distribution Algorithms" Ph. D., 2002Chapter 2:The graph matching problem(retrieved June 28, 2017) Graphs are comm ...

, detection of similarity between graphs * Matching (statistics), a technique for reducing bias when analyzing data from observational studies *

Matching funds Matching funds are funds that are set to be paid in proportion to funds available from other sources. Matching fund payments usually arise in situations of charity or public good. The terms cost sharing, in-kind, and matching can be used interc ...

, funds set to be paid in equal amount to funds available from other sources * Matching principle, an accounting method * Matching theory (economics), the assigning of job candidates to vacancies *

Matching law In operant conditioning, the matching law is a quantitative relationship that holds between the relative rates of response and the relative rates of reinforcement in concurrent schedules of reinforcement. For example, if two response alternatives A ...

, in behaviorism and learning, the matching law suggests that an animal's response rate to a scenario will be proportionate to the amount/duration of reinforcement delivered *

National Resident Matching Program The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), also called The Match, is a United States-based private non-profit non-governmental organization created in 1952 to place U.S. medical school students into residency training programs located in Unite ...

, the process of allocating medical graduates to internship programs * Matchmaking, the process of introducing people for the purpose of marriage * Impedance matching, in electronics, attempting to make the output impedance of a source equal to the input impedance of the load to which it is ultimately connected * Pattern matching, in computer science, a way to recognize patterns in strings or more general sequences of tokens *

String matching algorithm In computer science, string-searching algorithms, sometimes called string-matching algorithms, are an important class of string algorithms that try to find a place where one or several string (computer science), strings (also called patterns) are f ...

, in computer science, another simpler way to recognize patterns in strings *

Stable matching theory In economics, stable matching theory or simply matching theory, is the study of matching markets. Matching markets are distinguished from Walrasian markets in the focus of who matches with whom. Matching theory typically examines matching in th ...

, the study of matching markets * Matching corresponding trades, the basic operation for clearing (finance) *

Employer matching program In the United States, an employer matching program is an employer's potential payment to their 401(k) plan that depends on participating employees' contribution to the plan. Background An employee's 401(k) plan is a retirement savings plan. The ...

in the United States

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