A mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects

Usage examples of coupling.

Now at last he understood why twining was so highly regarded, why it was considered a delight more powerful even than coupling.

The final coupling of Beatrice and Benedick is remarkably free of any constraints of social custom other than their serious and mutual investigation as to what it would be like to live together permanently as wife and husband.

Harry could see the green work engine nose to nose with the freight car, its engineer and brakeman with their backs to them, working at the couplings.

The young brakie had already parted the coupling between the Pooltex car and the rear of the train.

Yet it was not politic to cast her off, for she was no Metella Calva, coupling indiscriminately with the lowborn, nor did she couple with the highborn.

This marriage between postmodernism and fundamentalism is certainly an odd coupling considering that postmodernist and fundamentalist discourses stand in most respects in polar opposition: hybridity versus purity, difference versus identity, mobility versus stasis.

One arm around his neck, she clambered upon his hips, the other hand effecting the coupling for which Cathy had of course prepared him well.

He answered by grasping her armpits, raising her up as he rose to his own feet, lifting her upon his hips and coupling them.

He placed one hand beneath her shoulders, the other beneath her hips, and backed away from the bed, lifting her with him to maintain their coupling.

And he had a feeling that he, like others who suffered from hypersexuality, was not going to be satisfied with a single coupling.

The Adams coupling found the usual psionic abilities, with the parakinetic strengths intensified to an unbelievable degree.

I recall offhand, Tywood has published papers on the effect of liquid viscosity on the wings of the Rayleigh line, on higher-orbit field equations, and on spin-orbit coupling of two nucleons, but his main work is on quadrupole moments.

Though her innocent dolphins were one of the few species aside from man who participated in intercourse for pleasure as well as mating, the coupling had seemed so pure and clean, producing the majestic Sosie a year later.

In the entire gaggle of miscellaneous tools, the only thing that could handle the coupling on the radiator pipe was the Stillson that Grego Collins had taken.

She touched a finger to her forehead, coupling a transdermal ID implant to the phone so that it could vouch for her.