decouple

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{a} uncoupled, parted, separated
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eliminate airborne shockwaves from (an explosive)
If two countries, organizations, or ideas that were connected in some way are decoupled, the connection between them is ended. a conception which decouples culture and politics The issue threatened to decouple Europe from the United States
reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)
(de-koup'-lay) [French ] Parted; severed (The same as UNCOUPLED )
regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
{f} separate; disconnect one thing from another; uncouple the coupling of one circuit or part to another (Electronics); absorb the shock of an explosion; decrease airborne shockwaves from an explosion by detonating the explosion underground
The tendency for the surface wind to become much lighter than wind above it at night when the surface temperature cools
reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) eliminate airborne shockwaves from (an explosive) regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology
disconnect or separate; "uncouple the hounds"
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A term used to describe programs which would separate government payments to farmers from the current or future quantity of a commodity produced or marketed, and from the quantity of inputs used in production Farmers would make production decisions based on market prices but receive government payments independent of production and marketing decisions
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A technique for setting the rates of a utility so that the earnings a company can achieve are not coupled to the level of sales In standard utility ratesetting, at least for non-fuel costs, if sales go down, earnings go down, and if sales go up, earnings go up This is a disincentive to DSM Decoupling allows rates to float up and down with the level of sales, so that earnings are not tied to sales
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The concept of separating federal farm payments from the requirement that farmers produce specified program crops and/or divert land from production A chief goal of decoupling is to remove a seemingly inherent contradiction in traditional policy: asking farmers to reduce production, while implicitly encouraging more output by tying their benefits to each unit produced The decoupling concept was first introduced during debate over policy options in the 1985 omnibus farm bill, and was effectively implemented by policy changes made by the FAIR Act of 1996
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A regulatory design that breaks the link between utility revenues and energy sales to encourage utility investment in conservation
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Event in the early universe when atoms first formed, and after which photons could propagate freely through space
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A method for ``turning off'' the interactions between two sets of spins In NMR, this task can be achieved if one applies a rapid sequence of refocusing pulses to one set of spins The other set of spins can then be controlled and observed as if independent of the first set
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the process of isolating one stage of an amplifier from another This is usually done by adding a resistor in series with the power supply to a gain stage and a large value electrolytic capacitor from the supply to ground after the resistor Decoupling prevents oscillations and other noises that may occur due to unwanted feedback through the power supply connections It also provides further filtering of the power supply to reduce ripple, producing a cleaner DC supply for the low-level preamp stages
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strategic placement of inventories so that one section of the plant is not adversely affected by bottlenecks in other sections
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when acquiring spectra of nuclei other than protons the effects of proton coupling can be removed (to improve the S/N ratio and simplify the spectra) by applying a train of 180° pulses at the proton frequency while acquiring at the frequency of the other nucleus
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The separation of utility sales from revenues A link between sales and revenues encourages utilities to promote higher levels of energy use, rather than to conserve energy Under decoupling, a utility's allowable profits increase as certain efficiency goals are met
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