verb
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To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
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I've coupled our system to theirs.
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To join in wedlock; to marry.
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To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
noun
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Act of joining together to form a couple
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A device that couples two things together
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The degree of reliance between two program modules
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A connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them
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The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other
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(sexuality) sexual intercourse
Examples of coupling in a Sentence
There were no coupling rods.
Witt (Ber., 1877, 10, p. 656), is obtained by coupling phenyl diazonium chloride with meta-phenylene diamine.
While coupling or uncoupling vehicles..
In these the central bar which connects the two end links has screw threads cut upon it,;and by means of a lever can be turned so as either to shorten the coupling and bring the vehicles together till their buffers .are firmly pressed together, or to lengthen it to permit the end link to be lifted off the hook.
The knuckle stands open until the coupling is pushed against another coupling, when the two hooks turn on their pivots to the position shown in fig.
The latter on reduction yields a diamino compound, the disulphonic acid of which on diazotization and coupling with a phenol, &c., gives valuable substantive cotton dyes after the type yielded by Benzidine.
Hence there are advantages in employing a very loose coupling.
The use of automatic couplers for freight cars throughout the United States, introduced in 1893-1900, greatly reduced the number of deaths and injuries in coupling, and the use of air brakes on freight cars, now universal, has reduced the risk to the men by making it less necessary for them to ride on the roofs of high box-cars, while at the same time it has made it possible to run long trains with fewer men; but except in these two features the freight service in America continues to be a dangerous occupation.
In the first case all the driving is done on one or at most two axles, sufficient tractive force being obtained by coupling these axles when necessary to others carrying heavy loads.
This coupling gear is placed centrally between a pair of buffers; formerly these were often left " dead " - that is, consisted of solid prolongations of the frame of the vehicle, but now they are made to work against springs which take up the shocks that occur when the wagons are thrown violently .against one another in shunting.
The great novelty in the ampere balances of Lord Kelvin was a joint or electric coupling, which is at once exceedingly flexible and yet capable of being constructed to carry with safety any desired current.
One drum is usually fixed to the shaft, while the other is loose, with a screw link or other means of coupling, in order to be able to adjust the two ropes to exactly the same length, so that one cage may be at the surface when the other is at the bottom, without having to pay out or take up any slack rope by the engine.
They may be prepared by the reduction of nitro compounds in alkaline solution (using zinc dust and alkali, or a solution of an alkaline stannite as a reducing agent); by oxidation of hydrazo compounds; or by the coupling of a diazotized amine and any compound of a phenolic or aminic type, provided that there is a free para position in the amine or phenol.
Alkylated amino-azo-benzenes are also known, and are formed by the coupling of diazonium salts with alkylated amines, provided they contain a free para.
Zincke found that the products obtained by coupling a diazonium salt with a-naphthol, and by condensing phenylhydrazine with a-naphthoquinone, were identical; whilst Meldola acetylated the azophenols, and split the acetyl products by reduction in acid solution, but obtained no satisfactory results.
The coupling which immediately takes place demands careful attention; the males are afterwards thrown away, and the impregnated females placed in a darkened apartment till they deposit their eggs.
In this way, by coupling together an ordinary pendulum about 3 ft.
As an example of circular shifting may be cited the motion of the coupling rod, by which the parallel and equal cranks upon two or more axles of a locomotive engine are connected and made to rotate simultaneously.
The coupling rod remains always parallel to itself, and all its points describe equal and similar circles relatively to the frame of the engine, and move in parallel directions with equal velocities at the same instant.
Coupling of Parallel AxesOldhams CouplingA coupling is a mode of connecting a pair of shafts so that they shall rotate in the same direction with the same mean angular velocity.
Oldhams coupling may be used with advantage where the axes of the shafts are intended to be as nearly in the same straight line as is possible, but where there is some doubt as to the practibility I or nermanency of their exact continuity.
Coupling of Parallel Axes.Two or more parallel shafts (such as those of a locomotive engine, with two or more pairs of driving wheels) are made to rotate with constantly equal angular velocities by having equal cranks, which are maintained parallel by a coupling-rod of such a length that the line of c000exion is equal to the distance between the axes.
Then, from the principles of 60 it is evident that at each instant ai/ai = ai/aa, and consequently that ai; so that the fluctuations of angular velocity ratio caused by the first coupling are exactly neutralized by the second, and the first and last shafts have equal angular velocities at each instant.
Coupling together these ideas he was finally enabled to prove that the propagation of electric and magnetic force takes place through space with a certain velocity determined by the dielectric constant and the magnetic permeability of the medium.
Plato (Theaetetus, 15 2 E) puts him at the head of the masters of comedy, coupling his name with Homer and, according to a remark in Diogenes Laertius, Plato was indebted to Epicharmus for much of his philosophy.
The new administration, notwithstanding Mr Gladstone's public utterances, declared their intention of retaining British sovereignty in the Transvaal, coupling with that decision a pious hope for the speedy accomplishment of confederation so as to allow of free institutions being given to Natal and the Transvaal.
I am not aware of any coupling between a werewolf and vampire throughout history.
In particular, the coupling (e.g. air, air bellows, pliable foam etc.) between the transducer and tissue will be investigated.
V. cholerae builds only one flagellum per cell, suggesting that there must be a close coupling between flagellum biogenesis and cell division.
Drop Head buckeye coupling A buckeye coupling that can be lowered to reveal a standard hook for a screw or three link type coupling.
The first is the coupling (mainly capacitive) between the primary and secondary windings on the transformer.
To prevent the transformer forming a DC short across the supply, an AC coupling capacitor is included.
Some, such as the coupling shot are amazingly clever, but very difficult to master.
The ceramic particles in dental restorative composites are coated with a silane coupling agent to improve their adhesion to the resin matrix.
Current and future studies will investigate neurovascular coupling over a broad range of stimulus parameters and cortical areas.
Having a high input impedance means it only takes very little capacitive coupling to get a reading.
This type of receiver inset provides inductive coupling to certain types of behind the ear ' hearing aid.
Atomic chlorine, being heavier, exhibits stronger spin-orbit coupling.
The effect is known as spin-spin coupling or spin-spin splitting.
The mechanisms by which nuclear hyperfine coupling arises for radicals in fluid solution should be understood.
The essence of the research was using powerful statistical techniques to search for potential ocean-atmosphere coupling in both modeled and observational data.
We will place an order for the missing coupling rod forgings and other parts will have to be purchased.
In quantum gravity, the role of the gage coupling, is played by the energy of a particle.
We will then show that perceptual grouping influences the coupling of action.
Indeed, Morris seems particularly intent to depict casual coupling with a variety of gender variations.
Both mechanisms are shown to prefer globally synchronous states for slow synapses as long as the strength of coupling is sufficiently large.
On the other hand, the rotating transformer provides only magnetic coupling between the moving parts.
The coupling rods were then fitted back on the wheels.
All door handles are complete and working, roof has a few minor scratch scratch and chip marks, one coupling lock missing.
Several hypothetical scenarios that could provide a coupling between regional seismicity and reservoir hydraulics are proposed and evaluated.