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unˈcoupled, ppl. a.2
[un-1 8. Cf. MDu. ongecoppelt, Du. ongekoppeld.]
a. Not coupled or joined; left detached or separate.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. Prol. 162 Vncoupled þei wenden Boþe in wareine & in waste where hem leue lyketh. Ibid. 206 Coupled & vncoupled. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 32 Thouhe she be yong, yet wol she wele abide, Uncoupled to a fresshe man of iunesse. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. x. (Arb.) 102 There is a band to be giuen euery verse in a staffe, so as none fall out alone or vncoupled. 1625Milton Death Fair Infant 13 Th' infamous blot, Of long-uncoupled bed, and childless eld. 1659W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida (T.), Vows, whose harsh events must be Uncoupled cold virginity. 1818Colebrooke Obligations 55 Exorbitancy of price too, uncoupled with fraud. 1869Colburn in Eng. Mech. 19 Mar. 579/2 There was not..an engine..having..uncoupled driving-wheels.
b. Physics. Not physically interacting.
1965W. T. Thomson Vibration Theory & Applications vi. 167 The two pendulums behave as if they were uncoupled and independent of each other. 1981Sci. Amer. July 56/1 Wiesel's computer simulations of the evolution of the resonance begin with Io, Europa and Ganymede in uncoupled orbits and with Io driven outward by its tidal interaction with Jupiter. |