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Definition: Coupler |
CouplerNoun1. A mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | System which automatically controls the flight of an aircraft by means of the altitude and control servomechanisms. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A device that couples signals form one electronic circuit to another by means of electromagnetic radiation, usually infrared, or visible. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A device whose purpose is to transfer optical power between two optical waveguides or bundles and that is designed to be connected and disconnected repeatedly. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Fine Arts | A contrivance on a keyboard instrument by which keys are connected to play together. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Chemical used in colour development where it combines with certain by-products of the development process to form a dye. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Occupations | Throws switches and couples, or attaches to cable, cars being hauled by locomotive or hoisted by cable or chain in mines, quarries, or industrial plants: Uncouples loaded cars at their destination or uncouples and distributes empty cars to sidings or to loading areas. Moves switches to route cars and signals DINKEY OPERATOR (any industry) to start or stop cars. May open and close ventilation doors in mines. May open or close chute gates to load or unload cars. May crush oversize rock or ore on grizzly to prevent clogging, using sledgehammer. May remove and tag ore samples for laboratory analysis. May be designated according to type of hauling machine as Dinkey-Operator Helper (any industry). (references) |
| Joins metal couplings to cured rubber hose: Attaches expansion shaft to air-powered expander device, using handtools. Positions specified expansion ring on shaft and coupling on end of hose. Slips hose over expansion shaft and starts expander device that spreads expansion ring and locks coupling to hose. Cuts hose to specified length before attaching couplings, using miter box and knife. May bolt coupling hardware to hose, using wrench. (references) | |
Transportation | Mechanical latching device for coupling rail cars together upon inpact; it is also capable of uncoupling without requiring an operator on the ground. It may also include automatic connectors which couple electric or pneumatic trainlines together between rail cars. There are varying degrees of manual and automated couplers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CouplerSynonym: coupling (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Coupler |
| Specialty definitions using "coupler": acoustic coupler, audiometric zero ♦ Bethe hole coupler ♦ CONDUCTOR, YARD ♦ directional coupler ♦ engine supervisor ♦ head switcher ♦ LOCOMOTIVE OPERATOR HELPER ♦ OPERATOR, CAVITY PUMP ♦ pedal assembler ♦ reference zero ♦ SWITCH TENDER ♦ tail-rope boy, TONE CABINET ASSEMBLER ♦ YARD ENGINEER, yard supervisor. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Coupler" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (copulate, couple). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Coupler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Coupler" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "coupler": acoustic coupler ♦ Bethe hole coupler ♦ Car coupler ♦ Coupler of an organ ♦ coupler plug ♦ directional coupler ♦ earphone coupler ♦ free coupler connector ♦ optical coupler ♦ optical fiber coupler ♦ optical fibre coupler. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "coupler": star-coupler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "coupler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kanxhë për lidhjen e vagonave, bashkues (connective, coupling, pin, solder, union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المقرنة (coupling), أداة تقرن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съединител (coupling, tappet, thimble), сцепка, разклонител (coupling), връзка (alliance, association, bond, bunch, cement, channel, communication, concatenation, connection, connexion, contact, copula, cord, intercommunication, lace, leverage, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, noose, overlay, point, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, string, tie, touch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 耦合装置. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | optisk koblingsled (optical coupler, optical fiber coupler, optical fibre coupler), optisk kobler (optical coupler, optical fiber coupler, optical fibre coupler), optisk fiberkoblingsled (optical coupler, optical fiber coupler, optical fibre coupler), optisk fiberkobler (optical coupler, optical fiber coupler, optical fibre coupler), koblingsudstyr, koblingsstof, koblingskomponent, koblingsenhed, koblingsanordning (hitching devices), kobling (clutch), kobler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | computer (computer), wagonaanhaker, koppelmiddel, koppelingscomponent, koppeling (clutch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yhteenkytkin, optinen haaroitin (optical coupler, optical fiber coupler, optical fibre coupler), kytkin (clutch, coupling, switch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coupleur (combiner, computer, coupling agent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Koppler (combiner, linear combiner), Verbindungsstück (connecting piece, joint, union joint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύνδεσμος (conjunction, ligament), σύνδεση με κρουστική-αποκρουστική διαρρύθμιση, συνδέων (connecter, spanning, splicer), συζεύκτης, συζευκτικό, στοιχείο σύζευξης, ζεύκτης (computer, junctor, junctor circuit, trunk), οπτικός συζεύκτης (optical coupler, optical fiber coupler, optical fibre coupler), οπτικός προσαρμοστής (optical coupler, optical fiber coupler, optical fibre coupler), οπτικός ζεύκτης (optical coupler, optical fiber coupler, optical fibre coupler), οπτοζεύκτης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csatoló egység, kapcsolókészülék. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | copulante, testa di accoppiamento, gancio (catch, clasp, clip, crook, crotchet, fastener, fastening, hanger, hook), appenciatore, agganciamento (capture, lock-on), accoppiatore ottico (optical coupler, optical fiber coupler, optical fibre coupler), accoppiatore (computer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 連結器 (connector), カバー曲 (black coffee, Cabala, cafe, cafe a la creme, cafe au lait, cafe bar, cafe cabaret, cafe royal, cafeteria, caffeine, capital, cappuccino, capriccio, capsule, capsule hotel, cavalier, coverage, cub, cub scout, cuff links, cuffs, expresso coffee, Kabbalah, Kabul, Neapolitan coffee, Qabalah, remake of another artist's song, sidewalk cafe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | れ"けつき (connector), カプラー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 연결기. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cubbyl (brace, couple, in pairs, principal, yoke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ouplercay acoplador (tang). (various references) сцепщик (shunter), сцепной прибор, устройство связи. (various references) kvačilo (clutch, coupling). (various references) acoplador. (various references) kopplare (pander, pimp, procurer). (various references) bağlama kolu. (various references) зчіпка, зчіплювач, зчеп, автозчіпка. (various references) người mắc nối cái mắc nối, bộ nối. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coupler": couplers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "coupler": uncoupler. (additional references) | |
Words containing "coupler": uncouplers. (additional references) | |
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"Coupler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Capler, coppler, copule, coruler, couble, couler, couleur, coulpe, coupel, couper, coupla, cuple, cupple, kaeppler, Konpfler, Scouller. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coupler" (pronounced ku"pler) |
| 3 | -p l er | poplar, sampler, templar. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-o-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: colure, couple, croupe, recoup. | |
-2 letters: ceorl, clour, coper, coupe, croup, cruel, cupel, loper, loupe, lucre, poler, prole, puler, ulcer. | |
-3 letters: cero, clop, clue, cole, cope, core, coup, crop, cure, curl, ecru, euro, lope, lore, loup, lour, luce, lure, orle, pole, pore, pour, puce, pule, pure, purl, repo, role, rope, roue, roup, rule. | |
-4 letters: cel. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-o-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: couplers, opercula, opercule, recouple. | |
+2 letters: corpulent, corpuscle, opercular, opercules, operculum, peculator, pronuclei, recoupled, recouples, supercoil, supercool, uncoupler. | |
+3 letters: colporteur, corpulence, corpulency, corpuscles, operculars, operculate, operculums, peculators, pelycosaur, preciously, preclusion, procedural, procurable, producible, pronuclear, pronucleus, recoupable, recoupling, speculator, superblock, supercoils, supercools, uncouplers. | |
+4 letters: colporteurs, copublisher, corpulences, corpulently, corruptible, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, counterplot, counterploy, cupronickel, exculpatory, fluoroscope, groupuscule, intercouple, luteotropic, neuroleptic, operculated, pelycosaurs, polynuclear, preclusions, preluncheon, procedurals, reproachful, speculators, superblocks, supercoiled, supercooled, superschool. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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