"coupler" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkʌp(ə)lə/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-coupler.wav [Southern-England] Forms: couplers [plural]
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  1. (now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages. Tags: archaic Translations (anything that couples things together): съединител (sǎedinitel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), spřáhlo [neuter] (Czech), spojka [feminine] (Czech), kobling [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sprzęg [masculine] (Polish), cyplwr [masculine] (Welsh), cyplydd [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages. Synonyms: coupling
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  3. (music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
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  4. A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
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  5. An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: acoustic coupler, coupleress, Janney coupler, optocoupler, photocoupler

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