Crossword clues for coupler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Copula \Cop"u*la\, n. [L., bond, band. See Couple.]
(Logic & Gram.) The word which unites the subject and predicate.
(Mus.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare English) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages. 2 Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages. 3 (context music English) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together. 4 A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines. 5 An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
WordNet
n. a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects [syn: coupling]
Wikipedia
Coupler may refer to:
Usage examples of "coupler".
Scirio, who among other things ran the illicit headworld couplers in part of the city.
Nixie, relaxing back in one of the neuro couplers in the UNSA labs and looking as if she was enjoying herself, moved her head to gaze up at a corner of the room where the planes of two walls and the ceiling converged.
With this power available to be transformed into force, they could actually be carried away, up to the exit zonesand that, of course, is how they came to find themselves in the neural systems that the couplers were linked to, looking out at a new state of existence which none had seen other than as a vision, and many had never seen at all.
Jevlenese neural couplers, which the ayatollahs could use, just like anyone else.
There would be no point in trying to get to any of the Thurien couplers into VISAR, since those would have been the first places to be secured.
When JEVEX comes back on, everyone out there will be flocking back to the couplers, tens of thousands of them.
Cult followers or not, a lot of people were going to have all kinds of reasons for going home to their couplers, Hunt reflected.
Aboard the Shapieron, Hunt and the rest of the party were already on their way to the couplers located just off the command deck.
Once, the glimmer of an oncoming locomotive sent them scrambling across the couplers between the cars for the shadows on the other side.
Apparently others who had gone ahead sometimes returned as spirits that spoke in the minds of seers through the mysterious “currents” which Nixie alluded to repeatedly—a result, presumably, of “awakened” ayatollahs somehow applying their extraordinary affinity and reconnecting via couplers to wherever they came from.
Apparently others who had gone ahead sometimes returned as spirits that spoke in the minds of seers through the mysterious ``currents'' which Nixie alluded to repeatedlya result, presumably, of ``awakened'' ayatollahs somehow applying their extraordinary affinity and reconnecting via couplers to wherever they came from.
And the coring couplers have been rigged so that they will not disengage.
Essentially, it's a keyboard and acoustic coupler built into one device.
For bigger problems with which the little computer couldn't cope there was a modem and an acoustic coupler so that the little chap could be used as a terminal to control a big computer by way of 'the post office land lines.
For bigger problems with which the little computer couldn't cope there was a modem and an acoustic coupler so that the little chap could be used as a terminal to control a big computer by way of the post office land lines.