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coupling 1. a mechanical device that connects two things 2. a device for connecting railway cars or trucks together 3. the part of the body of a horse, dog, or other quadruped that lies between the forequarters and the hindquarters 4. Electronics the act or process of linking two or more circuits so that power can be transferred between them usually by mutual induction, as in a transformer, or by means of a capacitor or inductor common to both circuits 5. Physics an interaction between different properties of a system, such as a group of atoms or nuclei, or between two or more systems 6. Genetics the occurrence of two specified nonallelic genes from the same parent on the same chromosome
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More than eight hundred miles of hard travelling, and many weary days, had it cost them; and the sufferings connected with it rendered it hateful in their remembrance, so that the Canadian voyageurs always spoke of it as "La maudite riviere enragee" - the accursed mad river - thus coupling a malediction with its name. But I believe Casaubon was only jealous of him on Dorothea's account, and the world will suppose that she gave him some reason; and that is what makes it so abominable-- coupling her name with this young fellow's. Then he ran out upon the platform just as the engine whistled twice in the final warning that precedes the first rumbling jerk of coupling pins. |
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