decouple

Verb

Meaning

reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)

eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)

regard as unconnected

disconnect or separate

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

separate dissociate disconnect disassociate unhook undock uncouple unhitch unyoke unlink unbundle uncombine schismatize

Antonyms

knit agglutinate couple up

Hypernyms

separate tell distinguish eliminate differentiate extinguish

Related terms

decoupling

Examples

you must dissociate these two events! Source: Internet

decouple our foreign policy from ideology Source: Internet

uncouple the hounds Source: Internet

A huge win was the Legislature and governor agreeing to decouple from two provisions in the Internal Revenue Code. Source: Internet

During meiosis II, sister chromatids decouple and the resultant daughter chromosomes are segregated into four daughter cells. Source: Internet

A few months ago, key Microsoft architects were telling me that it would be impossible to decouple the Avalon presentation subsystem from the Longhorn OS. Now they’re huddling in conference rooms trying to figure out how to do just that. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

decotora decoupage decouplable decouplement decoupler decoupling