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Coupler vs Linkage - What's the difference?

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Coupler is a related term of linkage.


As nouns the difference between coupler and linkage

is that coupler is someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages while linkage is a mechanical device that connects things.

coupler

English

(wikipedia 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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    linkage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (Genetic linkage)
  • A mechanical device that connects things.
  • :A linkage in my car's transmission is broken so I can't shift out of first gear.
  • A connection or relation between things or ideas.
  • (genetics) The property of genes of being inherited together.
  • (linguistics) A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.

    • Synonyms

    *(mechanical device that connects things ): *(connection or relation between things or ideas ): association, bond, connection, link, relationship *(in genetics ): *(in linguistics ):

    Derived terms

    * linkage map

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