coupling
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English couplyng; equivalent to couple + -ing.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
coupling
NounEdit
coupling (plural couplings)
- act of joining together to form a couple
- 1960 June, “Talking of trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:
- It is the first British yard in which every activity of hump marshalling, except for the driving of the hump locomotive and the uncoupling and coupling of wagons, is fully automatic or drastically simplified by modern aids.
- a device that couples two things together
- (computing) the degree of reliance between two program modules
- (electronics) a connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them
- (physics) The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other
- (sexuality) sexual intercourse
SynonymsEdit
- (computing) dependency
AntonymsEdit
- (computing) cohesion
HyponymsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
act of joining together to form a couple
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device that couples two things together
sexual intercourse — see sexual intercourse
(computing) degree of reliance between two program modules
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(electronics) connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them
(physics) property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other
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ReferencesEdit
- coupling (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
coupling
- Alternative form of couplyng