pairwise

Speech parts

1. pairwise - Adjective

2. pairwise - Adverb

Meaning

pairwise (comparative more pairwise, superlative most pairwise)

Occurring in pairs; two at a time.
They proceeded to make pairwise comparisons.

pairwise (not comparable)

In or by pairs.

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Examples

A family F of sets is pairwise disjoint if, for every two sets in the family, their intersection is empty. Source: Internet

A family of sets is pairwise disjoint or mutually disjoint if every two different sets in the family are disjoint. Source: Internet

A more sophisticated two-stage process is, in the event of an ambiguity, to use a separate voting system to find the winner but to restrict this second stage to a certain subset of candidates found by scrutinizing the results of the pairwise comparisons. Source: Internet

Construction from polygons Each closed surface can be constructed from an oriented polygon with an even number of sides, called a fundamental polygon of the surface, by pairwise identification of its edges. Source: Internet

Also the empty family of sets is pairwise disjoint. Source: Internet

A set of integers can also be called coprime if its elements share no common positive factor except 1. A set of integers is said to be pairwise coprime if a and b are coprime for every pair (a, b) of different integers in it. Source: Internet

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