pairwise
Americanadverb
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"By addressing a key source of control errors through pairwise calibration," says Camenzind.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
“The main reason for this is the lower risk of U.S. equities and a below-average pairwise correlation to other markets.”
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025
In 1986 social scientist John Angle first described the movement and distribution of wealth as arising from pairwise transactions among a collection of “economic agents,” which could be individuals, households, companies, funds or other entities.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 30, 2019
The course teaches undergraduate and graduate students to represent the brain as a network—a set of "nodes" joined by pairwise connections, or "edges."
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 11, 2019
But the same mathematics that makes direct pairwise conflict resolution inefficient in large societies makes direct pairwise economic transfers also inefficient.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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