Tra từ coupling - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

coup‧ling/ˈkʌplɪŋ/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[Word Family: noun: couple, coupling; verb: couple]
1. something that connects two things together, especially two vehicles

2. when two things are joined or connected SYN combination:
　 ▪ an attractive coupling of two Slavonic Dances

3. formal an act of having sex

noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the coupling on the rear of the tractor
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A fundamentally different analytical method is to use the concept of bibliographical coupling to construct clusters of co-citing journals.
▪ He has also hit on one of the more interesting couplings for the ubiquitous B minor Sonata.
▪ In exactly the same way, an atom such as a halogen atom in a covalent molecule can show spin-orbit coupling.
▪ In his couplings Tom was always the active, never the passive, partner.
▪ In molecules with unpaired valence electrons, spin-spin coupling between valence and core electrons leads to further small splittings.
▪ Rubber O-rings inside the couplings insulate their surfaces from the metal transfer pipe, he said.
▪ The couplings between members of an ecosystem are far more flexible and transient than the couplings between members of an organism.
▪ Transformer coupling of the source and/or detector to the Wheatstone network is often adopted to match impedance levels or for isolation purposes.