coupling

noun

1. Act of joining together to form a couple.

2. A device that couples two things together.

3. software engineeringThe degree of reliance between two or more software modules.

4. electronicsA connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.

5. physicsThe property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other

6. sexualitySexual intercourse.

7. A connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together

   Similar: yoke

8. A mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects

   Similar: coupler

9. The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

   “the casual couplings of adolescents”

   “the mating of some species occurs only in the spring”

   Similar: mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union

verb

Present participle of couple