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'''Pair''' or '''PAIR''' or '''Pairing''' may refer to:
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==Government and politics==
* [[Pair (parliamentary convention)]], matching of members unable to attend, so as not to change the voting margin
* ''Pair'', a member of the [[Prussian House of Lords]]
* ''Pair'', the French equivalent of peer, holder of a French [[Pairie]], a French high title roughly equivalent to a member of the British peerage

==Mathematics==
* [[2 (number)]], two of something, a pair
* [[Unordered pair]], or pair set, in mathematics and set theory
* [[Ordered pair]], or 2-[[tuple]], in mathematics and set theory
* [[Pairing]], in mathematics, an R-bilinear map of modules, where R is the underlying ring
* [[Pair type]], in programming languages and type theory, a product type with two component types
* [[Topological pair]], an inclusion of topological spaces

==Science and technology==
* [[Couple (app)]], formerly Pair, a mobile application for two people
* [[PAIR (puncture-aspiration-injection-reaspiration)]], in medicine
* Pairing, a handshaking process in [[Bluetooth]] communications
* [[Pair programming]], an agile software development technique
* [[Pairing (computing)]], the linking together of devices to allow communications between them
* [[Twisted pair]], a couple of electric wires twisted together

==Sports and games==
* Pair, a team of two in [[pair skating]]
* [[Pair (cricket)]], a cricket term for being out for 0 in both innings of a match
* [[One pair (poker)]], a type of poker hand
*[[Coxless pair]] or [[coxed pair]], racing rowing shells

==Other uses==
* ''[[Au pair]]'', a work agreement
* Grow a pair, referring to [[testicles]], a slang term meaning act with more courage 
* [[Patent Application Information Retrieval]], an online service providing access to the prosecution histories of U.S. patents and patent applications
* [[Peer-Allocated Instant Response]], for distance learning in the Netherlands
* [[Parts pairing]], prevents parts from being swapped
* [[Wine pairing]], the process of pairing food dishes with wine to enhance the dining experience

==See also==
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* [[Couple (disambiguation)]], various senses for two joined things
* [[Even (disambiguation)]] 
* [[Pear]], a fruit
* [[Pare people]], a Tanzanian ethnic group
* [[Student's t-test#Uses|Paired t test]], Student's t-test for paired data in statistical hypothesis testing

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