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un- +‎ pair

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unpair (third-person singular simple present unpairs, present participle unpairing, simple past and past participle unpaired)

  1. To go from a paired to a non-paired state; to disassociate.
    He unpaired his wireless earbuds from his phone.
    • 2015 July 11, “ParAB Partition Dynamics in Firmicutes: Nucleoid Bound ParA Captures and Tethers ParB-Plasmid Complexes”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      The iterative pairing and unpairing cycles may tether plasmids equidistantly on the nucleoid to ensure faithful plasmid segregation by a mechanism compatible with the diffusion-ratchet mechanism as proposed from in vitro reconstituted systems.

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