decouple
pronunciation
How to pronounce decouple in British English:
UK [di:ˈkʌpl]
How to pronounce decouple in American English:
US [diˈkʌpəl]
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- Verb:
- disconnect or separate
- regard as unconnected
- eliminate airborne shockwaves from (an explosive)
- reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)
Word Origin
- decouple (v.)
- c. 1600, from French découpler "to uncouple," from de- (see de-) + coupler (Old French copler; see couple (v.)). Related: Decoupled; decoupling.
Example
- 1. He refuses to accept the hypothesis that emerging markets can " decouple " from developed markets and outperform .
- 2. Attitude decouple and target guiding algorithm in vehicular system .
- 3. How have these export-dependent economies managed to decouple from the developed world ?
- 4. If rim could decouple its hardware business to focus on secure , business-oriented mobile applications and management tools , a vastly scaled-down company might be able to thrive .
- 5. Dependency inversion principle states that we should decouple high level modules from low level modules , introducing an abstraction layer between the high level classes and low level classes .