Matching

Adjective

 * 1) The same as another; sharing the same design.
 * ''A matching set of furniture

Verb
matching



Noun

 * 1)  A set of independent edges in a given graph, i.e. a set of edges which do not intersect: so-called because pairs of vertices are "matched" to each other one-to-one.

Related terms

 * matching number
 * matching theorem
 * maximum matching
 * perfect matching

Thesaurus
Olympic games, Olympics, allegory, analogous, analogy, balancing, bout, chromatic, cold, colorific, coloring, comparable, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics, comparative literature, comparative method, compare, comparing, comparison, complementary, concours, confrontation, confrontment, contest, contrast, contrastiveness, cool, correlation, correspondent, corresponding, derby, dichromatic, distinction, distinctiveness, duplicate, encounter, engagement, equivalent, fight, game, games, glowing, go, gymkhana, harmonious, homologous, identical, joust, like, likening, many-colored, match, medley, meet, meeting, metaphor, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, of a kind, of a piece, of a size, opposing, opposition, parallel, paralleling, parallelism, parti-colored, pigmentary, polychromatic, prismatic, proportion, rainbow, rally, relation, rencontre, simile, similitude, spectral, test, tilt, tinctorial, tingent, toning, tournament, tourney, trial, trope of comparison, twin, variegated, warm, weighing

Etymology
Combination of match and the present participle suffix: -ing.

Adjective

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Noun

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 * Icelandic: spyrðing