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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decouple.

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  • This fiendishly difficult work - like so much of Hübler's music - 'decouples' the instrumentalist's activities into separate units, which are then notated on independent staves. caitlinmoran: This seems like a simple, elegant, fair idea to end all awfulness, ever: the Robin Hood Tax:

    The Rambler Tim Rutherford-Johnson 2010

  • This fiendishly difficult work - like so much of Hübler's music - 'decouples' the instrumentalist's activities into separate units, which are then notated on independent staves. caitlinmoran: This seems like a simple, elegant, fair idea to end all awfulness, ever: the Robin Hood Tax:

    The Rambler 2010

  • Built on technology it acquired from Trango Virtual Processors, MVP provides a thin layer of software that "decouples" the applications and data from the underlying hardware.

    Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs 2009

  • And Intel CEO Paul Otellini mentioned yesterday at a Goldman Sach's technology conference that AMD may face issues when it "decouples" its design operations from the manufacturing side of the business.

    CNET News.com 2009

  • But this new percent-of-retail scheme decouples price from volume and forces the publisher or retailer to lose control of profit.

    John Brown – the author’s official site » 2010 » February 2010

  • The second technique decouples the Counter Electromotive Force (CEMF) from torque for electromagnetic interactions.

    The perpetual motion machine « Anglican Samizdat 2009

  • The last car in the train decouples at the first stop, while the train continues full speed.

    Matthew Yglesias » Runway Pricing 2009

  • Taken together they represent the chronic problem of modern capitalism: the excess credit that at its high point decouples capitalist virtues from prosperity and at its low point pins ordinary people under acute economic distress.

    There Is No Getting Around Gold Jeffrey Bell 2011

  • But this new percent-of-retail scheme decouples price from volume and forces the publisher or retailer to lose control of profit.

    John Brown – the author’s official site » 2010 » February » 03 2010

  • But this new percent-of-retail scheme decouples price from volume and forces the publisher or retailer to lose control of profit.

    John Brown – the author’s official site » Blog Archive » Amazon vs Macmillan = Big River Fighting to be Big Banana 2010

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