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Coupling vs Docking - What's the difference?

coupling | docking |

As nouns the difference between coupling and docking

is that coupling is act of joining together to form a couple while docking is the process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.

As a verb docking is

present participle of lang=en.

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

    Related terms

    * decoupling

    docking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia docking) (en noun)
  • The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
  • The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
  • (spacecraft) The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
  • (colloquial, LGBT) The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.