1. separated or disconnected from something else
Usage: technical; often used in engineering and economics

Examples

• The train cars were decoupled at the station.
• The company’s stock price became decoupled from its actual performance.
• The software modules are decoupled to allow independent updates.
• Economic growth has become decoupled from environmental sustainability.
• The decoupled systems can operate independently of each other.
• The research team decoupled the variables to study each factor separately.