decouple (redirected from decouples)

de·cou·ple  (d-kpl)

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: "There's not the slightest possibility that America would be decoupled from Europe by the pursuit of this vital initiative" Caspar W. Weinberger.

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de·coupler n.

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Verb	1.	decouple - disconnect or separate; "uncouple the hounds" uncouple disconnect - make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten
	2.	decouple - regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology" dissociate 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"