释义 |
pairwise, adv. and a.|ˈpɛəwaɪz| [f. pair n.1 + -wise.] In or by pairs; with regard to pairing; forming a pair.
1831Carlyle Ess., Nibelungenlied (1872) III. 122 Such as continued refractory he tied together by the beards, and hung pair-wise over poles. 1876[see kinematic a. b]. 1956Nature 21 Jan. 127/2 In the tetramer, pair⁓wise engagement of all the CONH groups is again geometrically possible. 1960H. M. Hoenigswald Language Change xiii. 144 Pair-wise reconstructions from three related languages may probe the question of degrees of relationship within the language family. 1965Math. in Biol. & Med. (Med. Res. Council) iii. 126 An observer or observers willing to assign a ranking order to the pair-wise resemblances among the objects. 1969Word 1967 XXIII. 302 The characters can be anything at all as long as they are pairwise distinguishable. 1971Powell & Higman Finite Simple Groups viii. 260 K1,.., Kc are pairwise disjoint, non-empty subsets of G. 1972Computers & Humanities VI. 184 Used in roll-call analysis to count pair-wise voting agreement on isolated roll-call votes. 1975Language LI. 378 Even if we allow pairwise (non-linear) extrinsic ordering, the problem is not solved. |