matchings
- 1Plural of matching.
The algorithm produced thousands of possible matchings between donors and recipients.
Several valid matchings of players to teams emerged from the draft.
Note
Only the noun can take this -s. The participle and the adjective (matching curtains, a matching pair) never do. The plural sits most naturally with the graph-theory noun, where a matching is a countable set of edges pairing vertices one to one, so mathematicians compare or enumerate the matchings of a graph. The process noun pluralizes only when separate pairings are being counted.
matchings is a form of matching
matching, noun: The process of pairing things together or putting them with their correct partners. Full entry
- Forms
- matchingmatchings plural
- Spelling
- matching → matchings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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