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coupling

[kuhp-ling] / ˈkʌp lɪŋ /


NOUN
sexual intercourse
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People pay a premium for iPhones because they perceive value in the tight coupling of hardware, software and apps inside Apple’s ecosystem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The other is the Zeeman effect, which describes the coupling between the magnetic field and electron spin.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026

“Asmodeus” is a bewildering incantation about the coupling of poetry and squalor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Their work explains how these quasiparticles arise through the coupling of optically generated excitons with the collective movement of electrons in the crystal.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

Once the animals are brought together, their couplings will alert conservancy staff that the timing is right for reproductive success.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 24, 2024

Each new school also got an emergency generator and exterior couplings to receive clean water from tankers.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024

That classical-quantum couplings might explain localistation of the wavefunction has been suggested by others including M. Hall and M. Reginatto, Diosi and Tilloy, and David Poulin.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023

It was a “perfect coupling” of the magnetic field of the particles and the magnetic field of Earth—and unfortunately, he says, such chance couplings are “impossible to predict.”

From Scientific American ● Mar. 30, 2023

The train jolts forward, slowly, lurching as the couplings tighten.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen


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