Usually means: Two objects working together cooperatively.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tandem: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tandem: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tandem: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tandem: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tandem: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tandem, tandem: Wordnik
  7. tandem: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tandem: Wiktionary
  9. tandem: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tandem: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tandem: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tandem: Dictionary.com
  13. tandem: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tandem: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tandem (UCI), Tandem (app), Tandem (disambiguation), Tandem: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tandem: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tandem: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tandem: Rhymezone
  19. Tandem (nt), tandem, tandem, tandem (de), tandem (m), tndem: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tandem: Free Dictionary
  21. tandem: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. tandem: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tandem: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Tandem: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Tandem: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. tandem: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TANDEM: Acronym Finder
  2. tandem: Idioms
  3. tandem: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DRAGONFLY TERMS (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Tandem, tandem: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tandem: Skydiving Glossary
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Tandem: Bicycle Glossary
  4. Tandem: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See tandems as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing pulling power but only the animal in front being able to steer.
noun:  (by extension, countable)
noun:  Two draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other.
noun:  A thing with two components arranged one behind the other.
noun:  (medicine) A hollow metal tube containing radioactive material, inserted through the vagina into the uterus to treat gynecological cancer.
noun:  (figurative)
noun:  (countable) A group of two or more machines, people, etc., working together; hence (uncountable), close collaboration.
noun:  (uncountable, 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.
adverb:  One behind the other; in single file.
adverb:  (figurative) In close collaboration; collaboratively, cooperatively.
adjective:  With two components arranged one behind the other.
adjective:  (figurative) Working together collaboratively; collaborative, cooperative.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) Synonym of tandemize (“(transitive) to harness or drive (two draught animals, generally draught horses) one behind the other; to set up (two or more things, such as pieces or equipment) to work in tandem or together; (intransitive) to drive a tandem (‘carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other’)”)
noun:  (specifically, cycling) Short for tandem bicycle (“a bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front being able to steer”). [(cycling) A bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front being able to steer.]

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