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UK
/dɪkˈʌpəl/
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[ US /diˈkəpəɫ/ ]
[ US /diˈkəpəɫ/ ]
VERB
-
disconnect or separate
uncouple the hounds -
regard as unconnected
you must dissociate these two events!
decouple our foreign policy from ideology - eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)
- reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)
How To Use decouple In A Sentence
- Yet this very ease of distribution is quite obviously also a problem for producers in that it is decoupled from any possible financial reward.
- Somehow loaning of money has been decoupled from the ability to pay that loan back. Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers
- But Republicans have refused any effort to "decouple" the two categories, insisting on extending both for the same duration, in order to avoid having to push for extending just the tax cuts for the rich later. The Morning Plum
- Fiber-coupled pumps also enable system integrators to decouple the pump system from the laser head, adding more packaging flexibility.
- Also, Virginia is legally able, if it wishes, to "decouple" itself from the federal ban on sales taxes on Internet sales, an action that would gain $157 million annually, plus provide more local revenue. McMediocrity's Latest "Plan"
- The group believe the findings have implications for Irish farmers in the medium term as direct payments are decoupled from production.
- In our experiment, we consider horizontal direction and perpendicular direction decouple, so we utilize state space description analysis system model.
- Just as women's motherly character was decoupled from their reproductive role, female love was dissociated from female sexuality.
- It seems likely that gold and silver prices will decouple from the official spot price as this crisis unfolds. Archive 2008-10-01
- If the definition of design is decoupled from the definition of intelligence, at least the "D" part of ID is not subject to the concerns being raised about the definition of intelligence …. Aiguy's Computer
