couple

Definitions

• Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
• Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
• (informal) A small number.
• One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
• (physics) Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel lines), thus creating the turning effect of a torque or moment.
• (architecture) A couple-close.
• (obsolete) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.