pairing

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
• Homophone: paring

Noun

pairing (countable and uncountable, plural pairings)

1. The combination or union of two things.

   The seeds were adjusted to make sure that there were good pairings for the tennis tournament.

   • 2017 November 21, Lindsay Theunis, Christine Schnor, Didier Willaert, Jan Van Bavel, “His and Her Education and Marital Dissolution: Adding a Contextual Dimension”, in European Journal of Population, volume 34, →DOI, pages 663-687:

     In the past, quite some studies have shown that educational hypogamous marriages are more likely to dissolve than marriages with other educational pairings (see Schwartz and Han 2014 for a review).

2. (politics) An agreement between two members of a legislative body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may absent themselves.

Derived terms

• accepted pairing
• assortative pairing
• axiom of pairing
• crack pairing
• pairing energy
• pairing function
• pairing off
• pairing time

Verb

pairing

1. present participle and gerund of pair