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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.
In English, tandem is often 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. Tandem is also
used as a term for the wheels on a semi trailer to balance the weight of a
load of freight. In the real estate world it describes items such as
parking in lengthwise two-or-more-car garages, and in telephony, a Class 4
telephone switch which connects other switches.
"Tandem" can be used more vaguely to refer to any group of persons or
objects working together, not necessarily in line. "In tandem", for
example, in politics and busi
