Coupling

Quick meaning: Coupling is a noun meaning The act of joining together to form a couple.

Meaning

The act of joining together to form a couple.

More Meanings

1. A device that couples two things together.
2. (software engineering) The degree of reliance between two or more software modules.
3. (electronics) A connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.
4. (physics) The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other
5. (sexuality) An act of sexual intercourse.
6. A link between the performance of an action and the location where that action occurs or the method used to perform that action.
7. present participle and gerund of couple

Example Sentences

The biggest film of March 1992 was “Basic Instinct,” an erotic thriller featuring an established movie star in explicit onscreen couplings with a sexy up-and-comer.

The lack of coupling means that the elements of our system are better isolated from each other and from change. This isolation makes it easier to understand each element of the system.

It seems just as likely, though, that it simply never occurred to him to think about crime as something so tightly tied to place. Literary theorists and bridge engineers and police chiefs struggle with coupling.

It is the first British yard in which every activity of hump marshalling, except for the driving of the hump locomotive and the uncoupling and coupling of wagons, is fully automatic or drastically simplified by modern aids.

Word Forms

• couplings

Synonyms for coupling

Depending on context, synonyms include dependency, aphrodisia, coitus, coition, commerce, commixtion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pairing, conjugation, union, mating, coupler, yoke.

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