couple

Examples

• All

• Moreover, we do not know how all the atomic degrees of freedom couple to the motion.

  Academic text (1999)

• In a physics experiment, the researcher applied a couple to the lever, which made it turn smoothly.

• A couple had their "ready" lights on but refused to stop.

  Blog text (25)

• And when you have a couple acting on a spinning body, you get this gyroscopic effect.

• Phil explains how a couple of teeth must be missing on the flywheel.

  Fiction book (1991)

• This is when the solar wind couples most closely with the Earth's magnetosphere.

  Blog text (28)

• The engineer explained how different forces can form a couple to produce rotational motion in machines.

Synonyms

P

pair

vscouple

889 1.0

Two matching things considered together, like two socks

refers specifically to two equal opposite forces that cause rotation without translation

Idioms

A

a couple of

144 1.0

A small number of things or people, usually two but sometimes a few

Compounds

A

a couple of

∞ 1.0

A small number of things or people, usually two but sometimes a few

M

married couple

70 1.0

Two people who are married to each other

P

power couple

• Literature

8 3.6

Two people in a romantic relationship who are both very successful and influential

M

moment of a couple

• Specialized

8.6

A turning effect that two equal opposite forces make when they are apart

U

unwed couple

3.8

Two people in a romantic relationship who are not married to each other

Surface Forms

Etymology