coupling
noun /ˈkʌplɪŋ/
/ˈkʌplɪŋ/
- [usually singular] an action of joining or combining two things
- a coupling of Mozart’s Prague Symphony and Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony (= for example, on the same CD)
- (formal) an act of having sex
- illicit couplings
- (specialist) a thing that joins together two parts of something, two vehicles or two pieces of equipment
- The coupling was designed to fit the grooves in the pipe.