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English
Pronunciation
Verb
matching
- present participle and gerund of match
Adjective
matching (comparative better matching, superlative best matching)
- The same as another; sharing the same design.
- We bought a new sofa and matching armchairs.
- 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 61, photo caption:
- [...] the Class 142s and 143s have at times sported a number of advertising liveries [...]. The two cars of Arriva Trains Wales 142081 were certainly not a matching pair when photographed in 2005.
- That constitutes part of a pair with something else; complementary.
- 1980 August 9, James Moodie, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
- I greet you across the miles and hold out my hand to you and wish you many sunlit days and matching moonlit nights.
Derived terms
Translations
the same as another; sharing the same design
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Noun
matching (plural matchings)
- The process by which things are matched together or paired up.
- (graph theory) A set of independent edges in a given graph, i.e. a set of edges which do not intersect, such that pairs of vertices are "matched" to each other one to one.
Derived terms
- beatmatching
- gift matching
- matchingness
- matching number
- matching numbers
- matching principle
- matching theorem
- maximum matching
- nonmatching
- pattern matching
- perfect matching
- phasematching
- phono-semantic matching
- stable matching problem
- weird matching
Translations
process to match things together
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graph theory: set of edges
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