English Explanatory Dictionary

matching

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. present participle and gerund of match
adj
  1. The same as another; sharing the same design.
  2. That constitutes part of a pair with something else; complementary.
noun
  1. The process by which things are matched together or paired up.
  2. 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.

Pronunciation

/ˈmæt͡ʃɪŋ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-matching.wav

Word forms

matching better matching best matching matchings

Derived words

matchingness matching numbers nonmatching beatmatching gift matching matching number matching principle matching theorem maximum matching pattern matching perfect matching phasematching phono-semantic matching stable matching problem weird matching
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