tandem
IPA: tˈændʌm
noun
- A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing the pulling power but only the animal in front able to steer.
- (transferred sense) A bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front able to steer.
- (figurative) A group of two or more people, machines etc. working together; close collaboration.
- (education) A method of language learning based on mutual exchange, where ideally each learner is a native speaker in the language the other person wants to learn.
- (medicine) a hollow metal tube containing radioactive material, inserted through the vagina into the uterus for treatment of gynecological cancer.
adjective
- Together; working as one.
adverb
- One behind the other.
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Examples of "tandem" in Sentences
- It seated two persons in tandem.
- They are in their tandem position.
- Drift and selection work in tandem.
- It works in tandem with that article.
- Also the rearmost of a team in tandem.
- Fragmentation in tandem mass spectrometry.
- The act was enacted in tandem with the McKinley Tariff of 1890.
- The crew of two sit in Tandem under a single piece clamshell canopy.
- The adventurous and epic exist in perfect tandem with restraint and intricacy.
- Three games in to this abbreviate season, it's pretty clear that the Lightning has a very good goaltending tandem.
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