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Pair or PAIR or Pairing may refer to:


Government and politics

* Pair (parliamentary convention), matching of members unable to attend, so as not to change the voting margin * ''Pair'', a member of the Prussian House of Lords * ''Pair'', the French equivalent of peer, holder of a French Pairie, a French high title roughly equivalent to a member of the British peerage


Mathematics

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2 (number) 2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultur ...
, two of something, a pair * 2- tuple, in mathematics and set theory *
Ordered pair In mathematics, an ordered pair (''a'', ''b'') is a pair of objects. The order in which the objects appear in the pair is significant: the ordered pair (''a'', ''b'') is different from the ordered pair (''b'', ''a'') unless ''a'' = ''b''. (In con ...
, in mathematics and set theory * Pairing, in mathematics, an R-bilinear map of modules, where R is the underlying ring * Pair type, in programming languages and type theory, a product type with two component types * Topological pair, an inclusion of topological spaces


Science and technology

* Couple (app), formerly Pair, a mobile application for two people * PAIR (puncture-aspiration-injection-reaspiration), in medicine * Pairing, a handshaking process in Bluetooth communications * Pair programming, an agile software development technique * Pairing (computing), the linking together of devices to allow communications between them * Twisted pair, a couple of electric wires twisted together * Crew pairing, a sequence of activities a flight crew member is supposed to perform


Sports and games

* Pair, a team of two in
pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...
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Pair (cricket) This is a general glossary of the terminology used in the sport of cricket. Where words in a sentence are also defined elsewhere in this article, they appear in italics. Certain aspects of cricket terminology are explained in more detail in cr ...
, a cricket term for being out for 0 in both innings of a match * One pair (poker), a type of poker hand * Coxless pair or coxed pair, racing rowing shells


Other uses

* '' Au pair'', a work agreement * Grow a pair, referring to testicles, a slang term meaning act with more courage * Patent Application Information Retrieval, an online service providing access to the prosecution histories of U.S. patents and patent applications * Peer-Allocated Instant Response, for distance learning in the Netherlands * Wine pairing, the process of pairing food dishes with wine to enhance the dining experience


See also

* Couple (disambiguation), various senses for two joined things * Even (disambiguation) * Pear, a fruit * Pare people, a Tanzanian ethnic group * Paired test, a student's t-test in statistical hypothesis testing 2 (number) {{disambig