0 to separate from someone or something else; to separate something from something else that it was joined to or part of:
Tractors that haul Mexican-made goods to American consumers must decouple from their trailers on the Mexican side.
The optimists thought the rest of the world would be able to decouple from the problems of the American housing market.
Some people hope to decouple migration policy from party politics.
1 to separate two or more things or activities, or to become separated:
There used to be a theory of decoupling, where the emerging economies of developing nations would decouple from the United States' economy.
The numbers again raise the question of whether Japan is managing to decouple its economy from dependence on the US.
These are mechanically decoupled by a standard process.
They serve to decouple the load carrying wall from the currents in the fluid.
But (18) cannot be reorganized to deliver zeros in the right-hand column (the condition that allows one target to be decoupled).
This has a strong influence on system complexity as it decouples different layers of the product architecture.
The 1996 and 2002 programs decoupled most subsidy payments from specific crops.
Today, state-based standards on the one hand, and quasi-private governance structures on the other, play a central role largely decoupling agrarian politics and capitalist markets.
