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pairing

[ pair-ing ]

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noun

a coupling.
Cell Biology. the lining up of the two homologous chromosomes or chromatids of each chromosome pair in meiosis or mitosis. Compare base-pairing.

Origin of pairing¹

First recorded in 1605–15; pair + -ing ¹

But everything about the Hughes-Eldridge pairing militated against such a portrayal.

But as perfect a pairing as Trophy Wife was with Modern Family, black-ish is, too.

The Family Guy pairing is only the first Simpsons crossover episode this season.

And so it is with admiration and understanding that we are still violently furious over the pairing of Joey and Rachel.

What's new, then, is the pairing of unhappy truths with sweet kisses and saccharine confessions.

Many adults, it is said, hardly have a rudiment of this feeling, pairing the most fiercely antagonistic tints.

There were hundreds of snow petrels pairing off, but no eggs were seen in any of the nest-crevices.

The village children often saw the pairing otters, for the animals, hard pressed, had perforce to fish by day instead of by night.

Pairing takes place soon after the breeding aggregations are formed.

In reciprocal pairing, he found that the male was able to transmit the characters of the parents in a higher degree.

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