verb
- to disconnect or separate two things that were joined or linked together
- to cause two processes, systems, or variables to become independent of each other
Usage: technical; economics
Examples
- The engineer decouples the train cars before maintenance.
- The new policy decouples healthcare from employment status.
- She decouples her personal feelings from business decisions.
- The software decouples the user interface from the database.
- Economic growth decouples from environmental degradation in sustainable models.
- The mechanic decouples the transmission from the engine.
- This approach decouples risk from reward in the investment strategy.