coupler
English
/ˈkʌplə/
noun
Definitions
- (now) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
- Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
- (music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
- A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
- An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
Etymology
Suffix from English couple.
Origin
English
couple
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- accouple English
- couplable English
- couple English
- coupledom English
- couplehood English
- coupleish English
- coupley English
- couplezilla English
- coupling English
- couplish English
- couply English
- intercouple English
- noncouple English
- optocoupler English
- outcouple English
- photocoupler English
- recouple English
- supercouple English
- thermocouple English
- uncouple English
- カップル Japanese
- couple Middle English
- 카플 Korean
- 커플 Korean