coupling

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1. coupling - Noun

2. coupling - Verb

Meaning

of Couple

The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.

A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts.

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I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. Richard Cobden

Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei. Walther Bothe

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant. Irving Langmuir

The typical coupling mechanisms of authority of office and logic of the task do not operate in educational organizations. Karl E. Weick

I don't much care about tea-drinking in the afternoon; in the morning the stuff Jock brings to me in bed is like that Nepenthe which the wife of Thone gave to Jove-born Helena, but in the p.m. it always makes me think of Ganges mud in which crocodiles have been coupling. Kyril Bonfiglioli

the casual couplings of adolescents Source: Internet

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