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coupler
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coupler
Refers to a myriad of different types of sockets for plugging in electric or electronic cables or devices. See network coupler.
coupler [′kəp·lər]
(electricity)
A component used to transfer energy from one circuit to another.
(electromagnetism)
A passage which joins two cavities or waveguides, allowing them to exchange energy.
A passage which joins the ends of two waveguides, whose cross section changes continuously from that of one to that of the other.
(engineering)
A device that connects two railroad cars.
(graphic arts)
A substance that can react with the unexposed diazonium salt in a diazo material to produce the visible dye image.
(navigation)
The portion of a navigation system that receives signals of one type from a sensor and transmits signals of a different type to an actuator.

coupler
A metal hardware device used to join frames and braces of tubular metal scaffolding.


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: The need for fiber optic couplers We use electronic couplers all the time such as a telephone coupler which lets you connect both a telephone and a fax machine to the same telephone line Or a CATV coupler which lets you connect several TV sets to a single cable from Comcast :: The need for fiber optic couplers We use electronic couplers all the time: such as a telephone coupler which lets you connect both a telephone and a fax machine to the same telephone line.
Coupler - Couplers get worn and more frequently become misadjusted so that the fit between the coupler and the hitch ball becomes loose.
have left the opening chapters on microwave network theory, characteristics of planar transmission lines, analysis of uniformly coupled lines, broadband forward-wave directional couplers, parallel- coupled TEM directional couplers, and nonuniform broadband TEM directional couplers largely untouched, save for some additions and changes made to accommodate the multiplayer design of coupled lines.
 
 
 
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