Uncoupling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Uncoupling is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of uncouple.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of uncouple.
More Meanings
- The act by which persons or things are uncoupled.
Example Sentences
This uncoupling done, Gimbert opened the regulator as Nightall climbed back onto the footplate, in order to pull the one burning wagon away from the rest of the bomb-laden train.
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
- uncouplings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unconnected, unbundling, decoupling, loosening, disconnection, untying.
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