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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A two-wheeled carriage drawn by horses harnessed one before the other.
  2. n. A team of carriage horses harnessed in single file.
  3. n. A tandem bicycle.
  4. n. An arrangement of two or more persons or objects placed one behind the other: driving horses in tandem.
  5. adj. Having two identical components arranged one behind the other: a tandem axle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In electricity, in series.
  2. One behind the other; in single file: as, to drive tandem (that is, with two or more horses harnessed singly one before the other instead of abreast).
  3. n. A pair of horses (sometimes more) harnessed one before the other.
  4. n. A carriage drawn by two or more horses harnessed one before the other.
  5. n. A bicycle or tricycle on which two can ride, one in front of the other.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A bicycle with two seats, two sets of pedals, and two wheels; a bicycle-built-for-two.
  2. n. An arrangement of two or more objects arranged one behind the other.
  3. adv. One behind the other.
  4. adj. Together; working as one.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.
  2. n. A team of horses harnessed one before the other.
  3. n. A tandem bicycle or other vehicle.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind another
  2. n. a bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats
  3. adv. one behind the other

Etymologies

  1. From Latin tandem ("at length, at last (of time)"), from tam ("so") + suffix -dem. Sense of bicycles with two seats from 1884. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin, at last, at length. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. bicycle-built-for-two
  1. tandem bicycle

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  1. tandem tricycle

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  1. placement
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  1. tandem trailer
  2. autocycle
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  2. connection
  1. screw-engine

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  1. transportation
  1. bicycle

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  • bilby In Europe this word is used in the sense of 'language exchange partner'. e.g.
    Gunther speaks German and wants to learn Italian.
    Francesca speaks Italian and wants to learn German.
    Gunther and Francesca then as tandem partners have meetings in which they converse alternately in their mother and target languages, thus tutoring each other. Apr 1, 2009

  • reesetee A two-seated, two-wheeled carriage with a high driver's seat, drawn by two or more horses harnessed one before the other (in tandem). Oct 22, 2008

  • yarb It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy...

    - Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 64 Jul 25, 2008

  • sarra From Latin for “at last”; “finally”. No joke. Feb 28, 2008

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