In a Sylver Coinage position, two legal moves are said to be paired if each wins against the other.

The procedure for connecting two Bluetooth-enabled devices, which may involve entering a security PIN code.

A procedure for voting whereby, under a formal agreement between two members, a member who will be present for a vote agrees with a member who will be absent for a vote that the member who is present will not vote but will be "present, not voting." When two members are paired, the journal reflects how each member would have voted. Two members may be paired only if one would have voted "aye" and one would have voted "nay" on a particular measure or motion.

Another word to denote a fic involving the romantic relationship between two characters. Usually preceeded by the first letter of each character's name (i.e. "CW pairing" for "Catherine and Warrick pairing").

the two (or more) characters featured in the story. Sometimes specified for gen stories, nearly always used for fem slash, het and slash stories.

A romantic/sexual linking of characters within a show, sometimes indicated with initials ("K/S" would be Kirk and Spock from the original STAR TREK) and sometimes by combining the characters' names ("Tibbs" would be Tony and Gibbs from NCIS, for instance). Usually the reader is warned with these acronyms or combined names in the header or disclaimer so she can skip romantic relationships she doesn't like.

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Connecting more than one lantern to one power outlet via an adaptor or splitter, or more than one speaker to one amplifier channel.

If a player wants to start a new game, he can request pairing from the chess server. It will search for a player who has also requested pairing, who's rating is within 100 points, and who haven't ever, or more than 90 days he played. If there is a player who meets these criteria a new game starts. If there isn't, his pairing request is recorded until someone else requests pairing who is right for him. The 100 points and 90 days intervals can be changed, customized. Also there is an automatic pairing method. With this players can set how many simultaneous games they want to play and when the number of their active games lower under this value the server will try to pair them according to the above.

The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.

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"

the act of grouping things or people in pairs

The finishing operation in which individual socks are inspected and made into pairs prior to folding and packaging.

A partial or complete failure of interlace in which the scanning lines of alternate fields do not fall exactly between one another but tend to fall (in pairs) one on top of the other.

an important step in the process of targeted nucleotide exchange

an assignment of a hospital to each student

The concept of pairing treated here occurs in mathematics.

See To pair off, under Pair, v. i.