matching

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæt͡ʃɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ætʃɪŋ

Verb

matching

1. present participle and gerund of match

Adjective

matching (comparative better matching, superlative best matching)

1. 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.

2. 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

• matching numbers

 

Translations

the same as another; sharing the same design

• French: correspondant (fr), semblable (fr)
• German: dazu passend
• Greek: ταιριαστός (el) (tairiastós)
• Malayalam: ചേർച്ചയുള്ള (cēṟccayuḷḷa), പൊരുത്തമുള്ള (poruttamuḷḷa)

Noun

matching (plural matchings)

1. The process by which things are matched together or paired up.
2. (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.

Related terms

• gift matching
• matching number
• matching numbers
• matching principle
• matching theorem
• maximum matching
• pattern matching
• perfect matching
• phono-semantic matching
• stable matching problem
• weird matching

 

Translations

graph theory: set of edges

• Danish: parring (da) c
• German: Matching n
• Icelandic: spyrðing f
• Italian: abbinamento (it) m

Anagrams

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