DECOUPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decouple mean? 

• DECOUPLE (verb)
  The verb DECOUPLE has 4 senses:

1. disconnect or separate

2. regard as unconnected

3. eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)

4. reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)

  Familiarity information: DECOUPLE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECOUPLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they decouple    ... he / she / it decouples   
Past simple: decoupled   
Past participle: decoupled   
-ing form: decoupling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disconnect or separate

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

decouple; uncouple

Context example:

uncouple the hounds

Hypernyms (to "decouple" is one way to...):

disconnect (make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Regard as unconnected

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

decouple; dissociate

Context example:

decouple our foreign policy from ideology

Hypernyms (to "decouple" is one way to...):

differentiate; distinguish; secern; secernate; separate; severalise; severalize; tell; tell apart (mark as different)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "decouple" is one way to...):

do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of (terminate, end, or take out)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "decouple" is one way to...):

do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of (terminate, end, or take out)

Domain category:

electronics (the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

This mechanism essentially decouples the spin information from the charge, so that the spins are transported quickly over distances of up to a micrometre: far enough for a lab-based spintronic device.

(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)