decouple

de·cou·ple

D0080900 (dē-kŭp′əl)tr.v. de·cou·pled, de·cou·pling, de·cou·ples 1. Electronics To reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another).2. Physics To decrease or eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosion) by having it take place underground.3. To separate or detach: "Bipeds have a potential advantage over quadrupeds in decoupling their breathing from their locomotion" (Craig Stanford).

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de·cou′pler n.

decouple

(ˌdiːˈkʌpəl) vb (Electronics) (tr) to separate (joined or coupled subsystems) thereby enabling them to exist and operate separately

de•cou•ple

(diˈkʌp əl)

v.t., v.i. -pled, -pling. to uncouple. [1595–1605] de•cou′pler, n.

decouple

Past participle: decoupled
Gerund: decoupling

Imperative
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Present
I decouple
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Preterite
I decoupled
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we decoupled
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Present Continuous
I am decoupling
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he/she/it is decoupling
we are decoupling
you are decoupling
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Present Perfect
I have decoupled
you have decoupled
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we have decoupled
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Past Continuous
I was decoupling
you were decoupling
he/she/it was decoupling
we were decoupling
you were decoupling
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Past Perfect
I had decoupled
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we had decoupled
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Future
I will decouple
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Future Perfect
I will have decoupled
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Future Continuous
I will be decoupling
you will be decoupling
he/she/it will be decoupling
we will be decoupling
you will be decoupling
they will be decoupling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been decoupling
you have been decoupling
he/she/it has been decoupling
we have been decoupling
you have been decoupling
they have been decoupling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been decoupling
you will have been decoupling
he/she/it will have been decoupling
we will have been decoupling
you will have been decoupling
they will have been decoupling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been decoupling
you had been decoupling
he/she/it had been decoupling
we had been decoupling
you had been decoupling
they had been decoupling

Conditional
I would decouple
you would decouple
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we would decouple
you would decouple
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Past Conditional
I would have decoupled
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we would have decoupled
you would have decoupled
they would have decoupled

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	decouple - disconnect or separate; "uncouple the hounds"uncoupledisconnect - make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten
	2.	decouple - regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"dissociatedifferentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, separate, tell - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
	3.	decouple - eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics"do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
	4.	decouple - reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)electronics - the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devicesdo away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"

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