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Coupler meaning
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. | A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
Synonyms of Coupler
Example sentences (15)
Also in HO, the European manufacturers have standardized, but on a coupler mount, not a coupler: many varieties of coupler can be plugged in (and out) of the NEM coupler box.
The torque converter is a modified fluid coupler/hydraulic coupler, like a clutch, that is placed between the engine and the transmission, which changes the mechanical torque.
For British modellers, whose most popular scale is OO, the normal coupler is a tension-lock coupler, which, again has no pretence of replicating the usual prototype three-link chain couplers.
This theoretically enables modellers of British railways to substitute any other NEM362 coupler, though many Bachmann models place the coupler pocket at the wrong height.
He said he and Mr Kumar disconnected the engine and the power car by detaching the centre buffer coupler -- a device that connects the engine with a coach.
A star coupler is a device that takes in an input signal and splits it into several output signals.
Basic principle of EDFA A relatively high-powered beam of light is mixed with the input signal using a wavelength selective coupler (WSC).
Depending on choice of keyboard and coupler position, the player can select any of the sets of jacks labeled in figure 4 as A, or B and C, or all three.
Gimmick loop A gimmick loop is a simple type of capacitive coupler: two closely spaced strands of wire.
The depressed lower key lifts jacks A, B and C. The English dogleg jack system (also used in Baroque Flanders) does not require a coupler.
The diagram shown at 6:30 clearly shows the earpiece on the coupler in the data path from fax scanner to receiver.
The last part of the definition is included so as not to confuse multi-fiber connectors with a branching component, such as a coupler.
The man sending the Fax places the telephone earpiece on the coupler at 3:14 before the explanation.
The signal that was distributed was 70 Mb /s computer interconnect (CI) data and the star coupler provided two redundant paths of either 8 or 16 ports each.
This was achieved by providing the locomotive and cars with a unique axle system that used one axle set per car end, connected by a Y-bar coupler.