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Pairing

Pairing Meaning & Definition
Pairing Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pairing?

[n] the act of grouping things or people in pairs
[n] the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pairing: conjugation | coupling | mating | sexual union | union

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pairing: agglomeration | agglutination | aggregation | ambiguity | ambivalence | articulation | biformity | bifurcation | bond | bracketing | clustering | combination | communication | concatenation | concourse | concurrence | confluence | congeries | conglomeration | conjugation | conjunction | connection | convergence | copulation | coupling | dichotomy | doubleness | doublethink | doubling | dualism | duality | duplexity | duplication | duplicity | equivocality | gathering | halving | hookup | intercommunication | intercourse | interlinking | irony | Janus | joinder | joining | jointure | junction | knotting | liaison | linkage | linking | marriage | meeting | merger | merging | polarity | splice | symbiosis | tie | tie-in | tie-up | twinning | two-facedness | twoness | unification | union | yoking

See Also | assortative mating | cross | crossbreeding | crossing | disassortative mating | grouping | hybridisation | hybridization | hybridizing | inbreeding | interbreeding | service | servicing | sex | sex activity | sexual activity | sexual practice

Pairing In Webster's Dictionary

\Pair"ing\, n. [See {Pair}, v. i.] 1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples. 2. See {To pair off}, under {Pair}, v. i. {Pairyng time}, the time when birds or other animals pair.

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