coupler

[ kuhp-ler ]
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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.

  1. Also called coupling. Railroads. a device for joining pieces of rolling stock.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. (in color photography) a chemical that reacts with the developer to produce one of the colors in a print or transparency.

Origin of coupler

1
First recorded in 1545–55; couple + -er1

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How to use coupler in a sentence

  • When playing upon a soft combination on the Great, the organist may draw the Swell to Great "pizzicato" coupler.

  • We might lend him a coupler hundred bones at ten per cent., secured by a mortgage on the Maggie, if he's up agin it hard.

    Captain Scraggs | Peter B. Kyne

British Dictionary definitions for coupler

coupler

/ (ˈkʌplə) /


noun
  1. a link or rod transmitting power between two rotating mechanisms or a rotating part and a reciprocating part

  2. music a device on an organ or harpsichord connecting two keys, two manuals, etc, so that both may be played at once

  1. electronics a device, such as a transformer, used to couple two or more electrical circuits

  2. US and Canadian a device for connecting railway cars or trucks together: Also called (in eg Britain): coupling

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