Matching may refer to:

Geographical names

Matching, Essex Matching is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Epping Forest (district), 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 ...

, 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 g ...

Matching Tye __NOTOC__ Matching Tye is a village which forms part of the civil parish of Matching, in the County of Essex, England. It is 2.3 miles (3.7 km) east of Harlow, 2.9 Miles (4.8 km) south-east of Sawbridgeworth and 6.3 miles (10.4 km ...

Mathematics and computer science

Matching (graph theory) In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, a matching or independent edge set in an undirected Graph (discrete mathematics), graph is a set of Edge (graph theory), edges without common vertex (graph theory), vertices. In other words, a subse ...

, in graph theory, a set of edges without common vertices * Graph matching, detection of similarity between graphs *

Matching (statistics) Matching is a statistical technique that evaluates the effect of a treatment by comparing the treated and the non-treated units in an observational study or quasi-experiment (i.e. when the treatment is not randomly assigned). The goal of matching ...

, a technique for reducing bias when analyzing data from observational studies *

Pattern matching In computer science, pattern matching is the act of checking a given sequence of tokens for the presence of the constituents of some pattern. In contrast to pattern recognition, the match usually must be exact: "either it will or will not be a ...

, in computer science, a way to recognize patterns in strings or more general sequences of tokens * String matching algorithm, in computer science, another simpler way to recognize patterns in strings *

Stable matching theory In economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behav ...

, the study of matching markets

Economics and finance

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 inter ...

, funds set to be paid in equal amount to funds available from other sources *

Matching principle In accrual basis accounting, the matching principle (or expense recognition principle) dictates that an expense should be reported in the same period as the corresponding revenue is earned. The revenue recognition principle states that revenues ...

, an accounting method *

Matching theory (economics) In economics, search and matching theory is a mathematical framework attempting to describe the formation of mutually beneficial relationships over time. It is closely related to stable matching theory. Search and matching theory has been esp ...

, the assigning of job candidates to vacancies * Matching corresponding trades, the basic operation for

clearing (finance) In banking and finance, clearing refers to all activities from the time a commitment is made for a transaction until it is settled. This process turns the promise of payment (for example, in the form of a cheque or electronic payment request) i ...

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. Th ...

in the United States

Law and society

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 education in the United States, medical school students into res ...

, the process of allocating medical graduates to internship programs *

Matchmaking Matchmaking is the process of pairing two or more people together, usually for the purpose of marriage, in which case the intermediary or matchmaker is also known as a marriage broker. Matchmaking may be done as a profession for a fee or it may ...

, the process of introducing people for the purpose of marriage

Engineering

Impedance matching In electrical engineering, impedance matching is the practice of designing or adjusting the input impedance or output impedance of an electrical device for a desired value. Often, the desired value is selected to maximize power transfer or ...

, 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

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