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What is the noun for pairing?

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pair
  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.
  12. Synonyms:
  13. Examples:
    1. “In this race, everybody goes in pairs, and each pair had to get aboard and paddle out to a buoy and back.”
      “They gave me some garb that the institution puts out, like pajamas, and an old pair of pants over it, a pair of slippers, and an old pair of socks.”
      “A baptismal ceremony was next performed, the wedded pair being placed on green reed mats, while the priests poured water over them.”
pairbreaking
  1. (physics) The breaking apart of a pair (of particles etc) with release or absorption of energy.
pairforming
  1. (physics) The formation of a pair (of particles etc) with release or absorption of energy
pairing
pairable
  1. (plural) Either of a pair of matching items, such as clothing.
pairwork
  1. (education, therapy) work done in pairs
paire
  1. Obsolete form of pair.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Mr. Pelham was the only one among us who was not backing a colour, or a number, or paire or impaire, or manque or passe.”
pairables
  1. plural of pairable
pairings
  1. plural of pairing
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Most successful defensive pairings include a puck mover and a stay-at-home guy.”
      “The pairings were Embassy against Wilson Panthers and Cinzano versus Granwood.”
      “Food pairings generally relate to the cuisine of Beaujolais, France where both the Gamay grape and the bistro originated.”
paires
  1. plural of paire
pairs
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