coupling
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++coup·ling /ˈkʌplɪŋ/ noun [countable] 1. TTsomething that connects two things together, especially two vehicles 〔尤指连接两辆汽车的〕挂钩，连接装置2 when two things are joined or connected 连接，联结；结合 SYN combination an attractive coupling of two Slavonic Dances 两首《斯拉夫舞曲》的美妙连接3. formalSYSEX/HAVE SEX WITH an act of having sex 交配，交媾Examples from the Corpus
coupling• A fundamentally different analytical method is to use the concept of bibliographical coupling to construct clusters of co-citing journals.• In his couplings Tom was always the active, never the passive, partner.• He has also hit on one of the more interesting couplings for the ubiquitous B minor Sonata.• In exactly the same way, an atom such as a halogen atom in a covalent molecule can show spin-orbit coupling.• In molecules with unpaired valence electrons, spin-spin coupling between valence and core electrons leads to further small splittings.• Rubber O-rings inside the couplings insulate their surfaces from the metal transfer pipe, he said.• the coupling on the rear of the tractor• The couplings between members of an ecosystem are far more flexible and transient than the couplings between members of an organism.• Transformer coupling of the source and/or detector to the Wheatstone network is often adopted to match impedance levels or for isolation purposes.coup·ling nounChineseSyllable
that especially two connects something Corpus things together,
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coupling
coup‧ling /ˈkʌplɪŋ/
noun [countable]1. something that connects two things together, especially two vehicles
2. when two things are joined or connected
SYN combination:
an attractive coupling of two Slavonic Dances
3. formal an act of having sex
coup‧ling /ˈkʌplɪŋ/
noun [countable]1. something that connects two things together, especially two vehicles2. when two things are joined or connected
SYN combination:
3. formal an act of having sex