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 __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) ...

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. Definiti ...

, 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) Matching is a statistical technique which is used to evaluate 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 ...

, a technique for reducing bias when analyzing data from observational studies * Matching funds, funds set to be paid in equal amount to funds available from other sources *

Matching principle In accrual accounting, the matching principle instructs that an expense should be reported in the same period in which the corresponding revenue is earned, and is associated with accrual accounting and the revenue recognition principle states tha ...

, 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 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 alternative ...

, 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 Uni ...

, the process of allocating medical graduates to internship programs *

Matchmaking Matchmaking is the process of matching two or more people together, usually for the purpose of marriage, in which case the matchmaker is also known as a marriage broker. The word is also used in the context of sporting events such as boxing, in ...

, the process of introducing people for the purpose of marriage *

Impedance matching In electronics, 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 minimize si ...

, 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, 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 has to be exact: "either it will or will not be ...

, 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, the study of matching markets * Matching corresponding trades, the basic operation for

clearing (finance) In banking and finance, clearing denotes 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) into ...

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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