Verb: decouple dee'kú-pul
- Disconnect or separate
"They decided to decouple the two business units";
- uncouple
- (electronics) reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)
"The engineer decoupled the circuits to prevent interference"
- (physics) eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)
"Scientists worked to decouple the explosive to minimize collateral damage"
- Regard as unconnected
"decouple our foreign policy from ideology";
- dissociate
Derived forms: decoupled, decouples, decoupling
Type of: differentiate, disconnect, distinguish, do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of, secern [rare], separate, severalise [Brit, rare], severalize [rare], tell apart
Antonym: couple
Encyclopedia: Decouple, duplicate, discriminate