Definitions for couplers

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couplers cou·pler

Spelling: [kuhp-ler]

IPA: /ˈkʌp lər/

Couplers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 437 anagrams from letters in couplers (celoprsu).

Definitions for couplers

noun

1. a person or thing that couples or links together.
2. Machinery. a rod or link transmitting force and motion between a rotating part and a rotating or oscillating part.
3. Also called coupling. Railroads. a device for joining pieces of rolling stock.
4. a device in an organ or harpsichord for connecting keys, manuals, or a manual and pedals, so that they are played together when one is played.
5. Electricity. a device for transferring electrical energy from one circuit to another, as a transformer that joins parts of a radio apparatus together by induction.
6. (in color photography) a chemical that reacts with the developer to produce one of the colors in a print or transparency.

Origin of couplers

First recorded in 1545-55; couple + -er¹

Examples for couplers

Why, I remember when a coupler Turks 'elped in the good work one mornin'.

About 11:30 the boys returned with the tug and new bolts for our coupler.

He's been working on what amounts almost to the coupler Theory for ten years.

coupler instructs Young Fashion which way Bull was to be managed.

Gimme a coupler gallons o' distillate and some waste, somebody.

A diagram of a variocoupler is shown at A in Fig. 53, and the coupler itself at B.

Guess I'll haul her off a coupler points an' try the whistle again.

Both parties out of their great Wisdom, leave the treating the Match to coupler.

The joints of these rings are sealed by means of an H-shaped coupler of bronze which closes the opening.

Note that there is no drawbar and that the coupler is merely bolted to the beams.