Pairwise generally means "occurring in pairs" or "two at a time."
Pairwise may also refer to:
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Pairwise disjoint
In mathematics, two sets are said to be disjoint sets if they have no element in common. Equivalently, two disjoint sets are sets whose intersection is the empty set.. For example, and are ''disjoint sets,'' while and are not disjoint. A ...
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Pairwise independence In probability theory, a pairwise independent collection of random variables is a set of random variables any two of which are independent. Any collection of mutually independent random variables is pairwise independent, but some pairwise independe ...
of random variables
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Pairwise comparison
Pairwise comparison generally is any process of comparing entities in pairs to judge which of each entity is preferred, or has a greater amount of some quantitative property, or whether or not the two entities are identical. The method of pairwis ...
, the process of comparing two entities to determine which is preferred
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All-pairs testing In computer science, all-pairs testing or pairwise testing is a combinatorial method of software testing that, for ''each pair'' of input parameters to a system (typically, a software algorithm), tests all possible discrete combinations of those par ...
, also known as pairwise testing, a software testing method.
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