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coupling

/kuhp-ling/US // ˈkʌp lɪŋ //UK // (ˈkʌplɪŋ) //

联接,耦合,耦合性,耦合作用

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of a person or thing that couples.
    • : Machinery. a device for joining two rotating shafts semipermanently at their ends so as to transmit torque from one to the other.Compare clutch. a part with an inside thread for connecting two pipes of the same diameter.a fitting at the end of a length of hose into which the end of another such length can be screwed or fitted.
    • : Railroads. coupler.
    • : Electricity. the association of two circuits or systems in such a way that power may be transferred from one to the other.a device or expedient to ensure this.
    • : a short length of plumbing pipe having each end threaded on the inside.
    • : the part of the body between the tops of the shoulder blades and the tops of the hip joints in a dog, horse, etc.
    • : linkage.

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Examples

  • Therapeutic deep brain stimulation reduces cortical phase-amplitude coupling in Parkinson’s disease.

  • What Matt Lohstroh, the co-founder of the startup Giga Energy Solutions, wanted to show with the video was that the coupling of those two environmentally dirty industries could in fact make both cleaner.

  • Another feature, quantum coupling, allows two atoms to functionally “bind” together so that the quantum spin state of one atom changes another—similar to neurons talking and bonding with each other.

  • In fact, this is the only coupling in the film that makes any sense.

  • Coupling, Skins, Free Agents: Huge in the U.K., one-season flops in the U.S.

  • But in some ways, Graham and DeMint offer the perfect coupling.

  • At $75,000 per coupling, the potential profits are staggering.

  • The natural result was that anything further than unison coupling was seldom attempted.

  • The hose coupling makes it easy to connect the motor directly to the water faucet.

  • The end of the coupling having the small hole was slipped on the pump shaft and fastened with two setscrews.

  • The motor shaft being a little loose in the coupling, gave it a chance to work free without binding.

  • One end is provided with a regular coupling for connecting it to the line of good hose.