Pair or PAIR or Pairing may refer to:
Government and politics
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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 the only even prime number.
Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in man ...
, two of something, a pair
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Unordered pair, or pair set, in mathematics and set theory
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Ordered pair, or 2-
tuple
In mathematics, a tuple is a finite sequence or ''ordered list'' of numbers or, more generally, mathematical objects, which are called the ''elements'' of the tuple. An -tuple is a tuple of elements, where is a non-negative integer. There is o ...
, in mathematics and set theory
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Pairing, 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 type with two component types
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Topological pair, an inclusion of topological spaces
Science and technology
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Couple (app), formerly Pair, a mobile application for two people
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PAIR (puncture-aspiration-injection-reaspiration), in medicine
* Pairing, a handshaking process in
Bluetooth communications
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Pair programming, an agile software development technique
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Pairing (computing), the linking together of devices to allow communications between them
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Twisted pair, a couple of electric wires twisted together
Sports and games
* Pair, a team of two in
pair skating
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Pair (cricket), a cricket term for being out for 0 in both innings of a match
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One pair (poker), a type of poker hand
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Coxless pair or
coxed pair, racing rowing shells
Other uses
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Au pair'', a work agreement
* Grow a pair, referring to
testicles, a slang term meaning act with more courage
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Patent Application Information Retrieval, an online service providing access to the prosecution histories of U.S. patents and patent applications
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Peer-Allocated Instant Response, for distance learning in the Netherlands
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Parts pairing, prevents parts from being swapped
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Wine pairing, 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:
*Couple, a set of two of items of a type
*Couple (mechanics), a pair of force which are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction and separated by a perpendicular distance so that their line of action do not co ...
, various senses for two joined things
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Even (disambiguation)
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Pear
Pears are fruits produced and consumed around the world, growing on a tree and harvested in late summer into mid-autumn. The pear tree and shrub are a species of genus ''Pyrus'' , in the Family (biology), family Rosaceae, bearing the Pome, po ...
, a fruit
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Pare people, a Tanzanian ethnic group
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Paired t test, Student's t-test for paired data in statistical hypothesis testing
2 (number)
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