Pair or PAIR or Pairing may refer to:
Government and politics
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Pair (parliamentary convention) In parliamentary practice, pairing is an informal arrangement between the government and opposition parties whereby a member of a legislative body agrees or is designated by the party whip (politics), whip to be absent from the chamber or to abstain ...
, matching of members unable to attend, so as not to change the voting margin
* ''Pair'', a member of the
Prussian House of Lords
The Prussian House of Lords (german: Preußisches Herrenhaus) in Berlin was the upper house of the Landtag of Prussia (german: Preußischer Landtag), the parliament of Prussia from 1850 to 1918. Together with the lower house, the House of Repres ...
* ''Pair'', the French equivalent of peer, holder of a French
Pairie
The Peerage of France (french: Pairie de France) was a hereditary distinction within the French nobility which appeared in 1180 in the Middle Ages.
The prestigious title and position of Peer of France (french: Pair de France, links=no) was ...
, 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, a tuple is a finite ordered list (sequence) of elements. An -tuple is a sequence (or ordered list) of elements, where is a non-negative integer. There is only one 0-tuple, referred to as ''the empty tuple''. An -tuple is defi ...
, in mathematics and set theory
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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
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Pairing
In mathematics, a pairing is an ''R''-bilinear map from the Cartesian product of two ''R''-modules, where the underlying ring ''R'' is commutative.
Definition
Let ''R'' be a commutative ring with unit, and let ''M'', ''N'' and ''L'' be ''R''-modu ...
, in mathematics, an R-bilinear map of modules, where R is the underlying ring
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Pair type
In programming languages and type theory, a product of ''types'' is another, compounded, type in a structure. The "operands" of the product are types, and the structure of a product type is determined by the fixed order of the operands in the prod ...
, in programming languages and type theory, a product type with two component types
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Topological pair In mathematics, more specifically algebraic topology, a pair (X,A) is shorthand for an inclusion of topological spaces i\colon A \hookrightarrow X. Sometimes i is assumed to be a cofibration. A morphism from (X,A) to (X',A') is given by two maps f ...
, an inclusion of topological spaces
Science and technology
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Couple (app)
Couple, formerly Pair, was a mobile app that provided a mobile messaging service for two people, especially romantic couples. Like many mobile phone messaging applications, Couple allows users to share text, photos, video and other content. It is a ...
, formerly Pair, a mobile application for two people
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PAIR (puncture-aspiration-injection-reaspiration) The PAIR (''puncture-aspiration-injection-reaspiration''; sometimes ''percutaneous aspiration-injection-reaspiration'') procedure is a noninvasive treatment option to remove hydatid cysts. PAIR is considered an alternative treatment for cystic echin ...
, in medicine
* Pairing, a handshaking process in
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs). In the most widely used mode, transmission power is limi ...
communications
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Pair programming
Pair programming is an software development technique in which two programmers work together at one workstation. One, the ''driver'', writes code while the other, the ''observer'' or ''navigator'', reviews each line of code as it is typed in. The ...
, an agile software development technique
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Pairing (computing)
Pairing, sometimes known as bonding, is a process used in computer networking that helps set up an initial linkage between computing devices to allow communications between them. The most common example is used in Bluetooth, where the pairing proc ...
, the linking together of devices to allow communications between them
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Twisted pair
Twisted pair cabling is a type of wiring used for communications in which two conductors of a single circuit are twisted together for the purposes of improving electromagnetic compatibility. Compared to a single conductor or an untwisted ba ...
, a couple of electric wires twisted together
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Crew pairing
A crew is a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard. The word has nautical resonances: the tasks involved ...
, 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
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One pair (poker)
In poker, players form sets of five playing cards, called ''hands'', according to the rules of the game. Each hand has a rank, which is compared against the ranks of other hands participating in the showdown to decide who wins the pot. In hig ...
, a type of poker hand
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Coxless pair
A coxless pair is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two rowers, who propel the boat with sweep oars.
The crew consists of a pair of rowers, each having one oar, one on the stroke side (rower's right h ...
or
coxed pair
A coxed pair is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat with sweep oars and is steered by a coxswain.
The crew consists of two rowers, each having one oar, and a cox. One rower ...
, racing rowing shells
Other uses
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Au pair
An au pair (; plural: au pairs) is a helper from a foreign country working for, and living as part of, a host family. Typically, au pairs take on a share of the family's responsibility for childcare as well as some housework, and receive a monet ...
'', a work agreement
* Grow a pair, referring to
testicles
A testicle or testis (plural testes) is the male reproductive gland or gonad in all bilaterians, including humans. It is homologous to the female ovary. The functions of the testes are to produce both sperm and androgens, primarily testostero ...
, a slang term meaning act with more courage
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Patent Application Information Retrieval
Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) is an online service provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to allow users to see the prosecution histories of United States patents and patent applications and obtain copies of doc ...
, an online service providing access to the prosecution histories of U.S. patents and patent applications
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Peer-Allocated Instant Response
Peer-Allocated Instant Response (PAIR) is a project in the Netherlands that aims to match students with best-suited peer candidates for online support. It was launched in 2006 by the Open University of the Netherlands, an online university, and w ...
, for distance learning in the Netherlands
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Wine pairing
Wine and food matching is the process of pairing food dishes with wine to enhance the dining experience. In many cultures, wine has had a long history of being a staple at the dinner table and in some ways both the winemaking and culinary traditi ...
, the process of pairing food dishes with wine to enhance the dining experience
See also
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Couple (disambiguation)
Couple or couples may refer to :
Basic meaning
*Couple (app), a mobile app which provides a mobile messaging service for two people
*Couple (mechanics), a system of forces with a resultant moment but no resultant force
*Couple (relationship), tw ...
, various senses for two joined things
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Even (disambiguation)
Even may refer to:
General
* Even (given name), a Norwegian male personal name
* Even (surname)
* Even (people), an ethnic group from Siberia and Russian Far East
**Even language, a language spoken by the Evens
* Odd and Even, a solitaire game wh ...
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Pear
Pears are fruits produced and consumed around the world, growing on a tree and harvested in the Northern Hemisphere in late summer into October. The pear tree and shrub are a species of genus ''Pyrus'' , in the family Rosaceae, bearing the p ...
, a fruit
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Pare people
The Pare (pronounced "Pahray") people are members of an ethnic group indigenous to the Pare Mountains of northern Tanzania, part of the Kilimanjaro Region. Historically, Pareland was also known as ''Vuasu'' (South Pare) and ''Vughweno'' (North ...
, a Tanzanian ethnic group
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Paired test, a student's t-test in statistical hypothesis testing
2 (number)
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