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Tandem is a Latin adverb meaning "at length" or "finally". In English, the term was originally used for two or more draft horses harnessed one behind another as opposed to side-by-side. By extension the term now refers to any team (of machines, animals or people) working together one behind another. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that French Wiktionary be merged into this article or section. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... An adverb is a part of speech. ... Two pairs of Shire horses and a pair of Suffolk Punches A draft horse, draught horse, or harness horse is a large, strong horse bred for heavy work rather than speed. ...

It is used as an adjective in "tandem seating", as in a two-seat aircraft where the two occupants sit one behind the other, or in "tandem bicycle", where the riders are seated similarly. By further extension the term tandem is frequently used as a noun to mean an item of equipment, such as a tandem bicycle. It is used more generally to refer to any group of persons or objects working together. The tandem bicycle or twin is a form of bicycle (occasionally, a tricycle) designed to be powered by more than one person. ... In English, a noun or noun substantive is a lexical category which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase. ...

Alternatively, TANDEM has been used to describe a method of learning languages based on mutual language exchange between tandem partners (ideally each learner is a native speaker in the language the proponent wants to learn). Language schools all over Europe and overseas, organised as TANDEM International, as well as many universities, are working with this method.

It is in use for many more items and situations, e.g. in the real estate world to describe items such as lengthwise two-or-more-car garages, in politics and economics for joint plans and ventures etc. Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Tandem may also refer to:

• Tandem signaling
• Tandem skydiving
• Tandem Computers
• Tandem accelerator - see Particle accelerator
• Tandem bicycle
• Tandem switch for telephone exchanges without telephones
• Tandem Publishing Co - see Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd
• Tandem, West Yorkshire, a district of Kirklees

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One of the most difficult conditions for speech coders to perfom well in is the case where a digital speech-coded signal is transmitted from the mobile to the base station, and then demodolated into an analog signal which is then speech coded for retransmission as a digital signal over... Tandem skydiving refers to a type of skydiving where a novice skydiver(student or passenger) is connected via a harness to an experienced skydiver(tandem master or tandem instructor). The instructor controls the whole jump from exit through freefall to landing the parachute. ... Tandem Computers was an early manufacturer of fault tolerant computer systems, marketed to the growing number of transaction processing customers who used them for ATMs, banks, stock exchanges and other similar needs. ... A 1960s single stage 2 MeV linear Van de Graaff accelerator, here opened for maintenance A particle accelerator is a device that uses electric fields to propel electrically charged particles to high speeds and magnetic fields to contain them. ... The tandem bicycle or twin is a form of bicycle (occasionally, a tricycle) designed to be powered by more than one person. ... A Class 4 or Tandem switch is U.S. telephone company (telco) central office telephone exchange used for long distance communications in the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to interconnect telephone company offices. ... Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd was a paperback publishing company established in the early 1960s. ... ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

The TANDEM language exchange

• TANDEM International, an association of language schools
• The Tandem Foundation
• Tandem Server Bochum
• TANDEM Language Exchange Community

Etymology

The word was taken from Latin tandem = "at length" in the sense of "at last", "finally", applied humorously to two horses harnessed "at length" instead of side by side. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... The term harness has been used for many centuries for part of the collection of equipment known as horse tack, essential in the domestic, military, and agrarian use of horses. ...

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