decouple
verb/diːˈkʌpəɫ/UK
Etymology
From Middle French découpler. By surface analysis, de- + couple.
- borrowed from découpler
Definitions
To unlink
To unlink; to take apart or come apart.
- radiation decoupled from matter
- to decouple a spent rocket stage
- Wild said in a previous project update that Bond Street had been "decoupled from the opening of the railway" and that it is not yet clear if it will open as part of the initial Elizabeth Line opening this spring.
To muffle the seismic waves of (a nuclear explosion) by performing it underground.
- Decoupled tests would be nuclear explosions set off in massive underground caverns, a site that would greatly reduce the seismic waves caused by the explosion.
The neighborhood
- neighbordecoupling
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for decouple. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA