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Coupler vs Coupling - What's the difference?

coupler | coupling |

As nouns the difference between coupler and coupling

is that coupler is someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages while coupling is act of joining together to form a couple.

coupler

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
  • Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
  • (music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
  • A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
  • An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
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    coupling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • act of joining together to form a couple
  • a device that couples two things together
  • (computing) the degree of reliance between two program modules
  • (electronics) a connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them
  • (physics) The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other
  • (sexuality) sexual intercourse
  • Synonyms

    * (computing) dependency

    Antonyms

    * (computing) cohesion

    Derived terms

    * capacitive coupling * common coupling * conductive coupling * content coupling * control coupling * data coupling * data-structured coupling * external coupling * global coupling * inductive coupling * low coupling * loose coupling * message coupling * no coupling * pathological coupling * stamp coupling