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coupler
[ kuhp-ler ]
noun
- a person or thing that couples or links together.
- Machinery. a rod or link transmitting force and motion between a rotating part and a rotating or oscillating part.
- Also called coupling. Railroads. a device for joining pieces of rolling stock.
- 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.
- 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.
- (in color photography) a chemical that reacts with the developer to produce one of the colors in a print or transparency.
coupler
/ ˈ°ìÊŒ±è±ôÉ™ /
noun
- a link or rod transmitting power between two rotating mechanisms or a rotating part and a reciprocating part
- music a device on an organ or harpsichord connecting two keys, two manuals, etc, so that both may be played at once
- electronics a device, such as a transformer, used to couple two or more electrical circuits
- a device for connecting railway cars or trucks together Also called (in eg Britain)coupling
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
A company rule bars towing waybill locomotives without such couplers, the report said.
The transit system has rebuilt much of the “coupler†system, and it began slowly phasing in the cars in October.
In most instances, crews repaired the breaches using a sleeve-like steel coupler, referred to as a “boot,†to patch over the hole.
The coupler involved in the 2018 separation had a bolt that was the wrong size, Metro Chief Safety Officer Theresa Impastato said last year.
Safety inspectors said the restoration included use of wrong-size parts on some cars, while others had parts improperly torqued in their couplers, which are used to connect rail cars.
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