(advertising) A technique in which two or more competing products are compared in such a manner that certain good qualities are connected, while one product is made to appear more beneficial or desirable than its competitors.

(genetics) One thousand base pairs in succession (used as a measure of the size of a nucleic acid or a gene)

A pair of twins, one male and one female. / Two siblings, one male and one female.

plural of pocket pair

plural of homologous pair

plural of coxless pair

(chiefly Britain, rare or dated) A flight of stairs

plural of kilobase pair

A hand-held device consisting of a series of lenses and prisms, used to magnify objects so that they can be better seen from a distance, and looked at through both eyes.

plural of pair of binoculars