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decouple

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decouple [dē′kəp·əl]
(engineering)
To minimize or eliminate airborne shock waves of a nuclear or other explosion by placing the explosives deep under the ground.
To minimize the seismic effect of an underground explosion by setting it off in the center of an underground cavity.


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New Jersey became the first (and only) state so far to partially decouple from the DPAD; on July 2, 2005, Acting Governor Richard J.
Ghabra spoke of the need to decouple religion and politics and to adjust the prevalent narrow-minded interpretation of Islam.
Still, the extent to which non-Japan Asia can decouple itself from the U.
 
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