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 a 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 () in Berlin was the upper house of the Landtag of Prussia (), the parliament of Prussia from 1850 to 1918. Together with the lower house, the House of Representatives (), it formed the Prussian bicameral legislature ...
* ''Pair'', the French equivalent of peer, holder of a French
Pairie
The Peerage of France () was a hereditary distinction within the French nobility which appeared in 1180 during the Middle Ages.
The prestigious title and position of Peer of France () was held by the greatest, highest-ranking members of the Fr ...
, 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
In mathematics, an ordered pair, denoted (''a'', ''b''), is a pair of objects in which their order is significant. The ordered pair (''a'', ''b'') is different from the ordered pair (''b'', ''a''), unless ''a'' = ''b''. In contrast, the '' unord ...
, 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, 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 '' ...
, in mathematics, an R-bilinear map of modules, where R is the underlying ring
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Pair type
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 Fre ...
, 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)
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 allowed users to share text, photos, video, and other content. It wa ...
, 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
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 li ...
communications
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Pair programming
Pair programming is a 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. Th ...
, 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
Twisted pair cabling is a type of communications cable 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 balanced ...
, a couple of electric wires twisted together
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 ...
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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 c ...
, 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
A coxless pair, abbreviated as a 2- and also known as a straight pair, is a racing shell 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 ...
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coxed pair
A coxed pair, abbreviated as a 2+, is a racing shell used in the rowing (sport), sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat with sweep (rowing), sweep oars and is steered by a coxswain (rowing), coxswain (cox ...
, racing rowing shells
Other uses
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Au pair
An au pair (; : au pairs) is a person working for, and living as part of, a homestay, host family. Typically, au pairs take on a share of the family’s responsibility for child care as well as some homemaking, housework, and receive a monetary ...
'', a work agreement
* Grow a pair, referring to
testicles
A testicle or testis ( testes) is the gonad in all male bilaterians, including humans, and is homologous to the ovary in females. Its primary functions are the production of sperm and the secretion of androgens, primarily testosterone.
The ...
, 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, for distance learning in the Netherlands
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Parts pairing, prevents parts from being swapped
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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:
*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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