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What does pair mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pair? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
  2. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale tantum)
  3. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
  4. (card game) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
  5. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match
  6. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play
  7. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
  8. (politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
  9. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
  10. (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
  11. (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To group into sets of two.
  2. (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
  3. (politics) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
  4. (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
  5. (computing) to form wireless connection between to devices
Verb
  1. (obsolete) To impair.
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