The word pair, derived via the French words pair/paire from the Latin par 'equal', can refer to:
- 2 (number), two of something, a pair
- Topological pair, an inclusion of topological spaces
- Tuple
- Product type
- Au pair, a work agreement
- Couple, various senses for two joined things
- Even number, in roulette etc.
- Ordered pair, in Mathematics and set theory
- Twisted pair, a couple of electric wires twisted together
- Pair (parliamentary convention), matching of members unable to attend, so as not to change the voting margin
- Pair, the French equivalent of peer, holder of a French Pairie, French high title roughly equivalent to a member of the British peerage
- Pair, a member of the Prussian House of Lords
- Pair (Cricket): "getting a pair" means being out for 0 in both innings of a match
- A handshaking process in Bluetooth communications
- Pair, Pressure of air in a system
- A team in pair skating
- PAIR, the research group Pain & Autonomics - Integrative Research at the University of Jena in Germany
- Pair (app), a mobile application for a couple
- Pair of lead actors or performers, appearing in many films etc. together, also known as 'hit pair'.
- Pairing, mathematics
- Pairing (computing), the linking together of devices to allow communications between them
Famous quotes containing the word pair:
“I saw a guide-post surmounted by a pair of moose horns.... They are sometimes used for ornamental hat-trees, together with deer’s horns, in front entries; but ... I trust that I shall have a better excuse for killing a moose than that I may hang my hat on his horns.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“She scatters
the lotuses of her eyes
up the street,
waiting for you to come,
resting her breasts on the gate
like a pair of lucky pots.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don’t look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don’t let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.”
—Francis Picabia (1878–1953)