pairing
noun1
The combination or union of two things.
- The seeds were adjusted to make sure that there were good pairings for the tennis tournament.
- 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).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:
2
Government, 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, depairing, nonpairing, pairing energy, pairing function, pairing off, pairing time