"decouple" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: [diːˈkʌpəɫ] [UK], [diːˈkʊpəɫ] [UK] Forms: decouples [present, singular, third-person], decoupling [participle, present], decoupled [participle, past], decoupled [past]
Etymology: From French découpler. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|découpler}} French découpler Head templates: {{en-verb}} decouple (third-person singular simple present decouples, present participle decoupling, simple past and past participle decoupled)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To unlink; to take or come apart. Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (to unlink): ontkoppel (Afrikaans), разделям (razdeljam) (Bulgarian), отсъединявам (otsǎedinjavam) (Bulgarian), desacoblar (Catalan), ontkoppelen (Dutch), malligi (Esperanto), kytkeä irti (Finnish), découpler (French), entkoppeln (German), deskuplar (Ido), desacoplar (Portuguese), decupla (Romanian), deconecta (Romanian), dezlega (Romanian), scucchiari (Sicilian), desacoplar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-decouple-en-verb-lt71XLCP Disambiguation of 'to unlink': 96 4
  2. (transitive, military) To muffle the seismic waves of (a nuclear explosion) by performing it underground. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Military
    Sense id: en-decouple-en-verb-AcAJqrbD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 85 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 23 77 Topics: government, military, politics, war
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: decoupling [noun]

Inflected forms

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