decouple
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de·cou·ple
(dē-kŭp′əl)tr.v. de·cou·pled, de·cou·pling, de·cou·ples
1. Electronics To reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another).
2. Physics To decrease or eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosion) by having it take place underground.
3. To separate or detach: "Bipeds have a potential advantage over quadrupeds in decoupling their breathing from their locomotion" (Craig Stanford).
de·cou′pler n.
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decouple
(ˌdiːˈkʌpəl)vb
(Electronics) (tr) to separate (joined or coupled subsystems) thereby enabling them to exist and operate separately
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de•cou•ple
(diˈkʌp əl)v.t., v.i. -pled, -pling.
to uncouple.
[1595–1605]
de•cou′pler, n.
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decouple
Past participle: decoupled
Gerund: decoupling
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| Verb | 1. |  decouple - disconnect or separate; "uncouple the hounds"disconnect - make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten |
| 2. | decouple - regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology" differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, separate, tell - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" | |
| 3. | decouple - eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics" do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" | |
| 4. | decouple - reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) electronics - the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" |
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
decouple
[diːˈkʌpəl] (formal) vt [+ organizations, ideas] → découplerto decouple sth from sth → découpler qch de qch
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
decouple
vt → entkoppeln
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