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decouple

Word definitions for decouple in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. disconnect or separate; "uncouple the hounds" [syn: uncouple ] [ant: couple ] regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology" [syn: dissociate ] [ant: associate ] eliminate airborne shockwaves ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) to unlink; to take apart

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from French découpler "to uncouple," from de- (see de- ) + coupler (Old French copler ; see couple (v.)). Related: Decoupled ; decoupling .

Usage examples of decouple.

Jones down fifteen points, Federated Confidence up three, incoming briefing on causal decoupling of social control of skirt hem lengths, shaving pattern of beards, and emergence of multidrug antibiotic resistance in gram negative bacilli: accept?

Jones down fifteen points, Federated Confidence up three, incoming briefing on causal decoupling of social control of skirt hem lengths, shaving pattern of beards, and emergence of multidrug antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacilli: Accept?

M: By the time CC got late into his writings, he had become detached, really decoupled, from DJM for quite a number of years.

They would emerge a mere hundred thousand years after the singularity itself, at the moment when the temperature of the cosmos had cooled sufficiently for matter and radiation to become decoupled - so that the infant Universe became suddenly transparent, as if with a clash of cymbals.

Advanced Tactical Quiet Generator with the Toyota cold decoupling fuel cell, and the addition of military-standard safing mechanisms to what was now being called the firing controller.

The cosmic background radiation discovered by Penzias and Wilson is nothing more than the radiation at the time when it decoupled from matter, now grown old.

With a growl at the pursuers, Chewbacca decoupled the magnetic bearing from the third car.

It is not clear how far this technique can be advanced, or what practical limits there may be on quantum entanglement (coupled states tend to decouple from each other, because of their interactions with the rest of the universe).