decouple

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To unlink; to take apart or come apart.
To muffle the seismic waves of (a nuclear explosion) by performing it underground.

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decouple decouples decoupling decoupled

From Middle French découpler. By surface analysis, de- + couple.

uncouple unpair dispair

decoupling

decouplable decouplement decoupler

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