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Definition of Coupled

1. Adjective. Joined together especially in a pair or pairs.

Definition of Coupled

1. Verb. (past of couple) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coupled

1. couple [v] - See also: couple

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coupled

Literary usage of Coupled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"The employment of an attorney to collect a claim, the attorney to be paid a certain part of the proceeds collected, is a power coupled with an interest; ..."

2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"58 and CS coupled together 11009 13179 There was thus shown to be a superiority in the intensity of the light produced by the two machines coupled together ..."

3. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"XXI coupled with present volitions, and with present acts. ^T*~~~~/ The party wishes or wills certain of the bodily movements coupled which immediately ..."

4. Principles of the Law of Contract: With a Chapter on the Law of Agency by William Reynell Anson, Arthur Linton Corbin (1919)
"Power coupled with an interest. The power and privilege of revocation may be expressly or impliedly limited by the duty of the employer to save or to ..."

5. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"There are coupled cylindrical piers of brick used as supports in the church ... At S. Sepolcro of Bologna there are cylindrical piers and coupled columns. ..."

6. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the Second Nimh Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"Thus, actions of G protein-coupled receptors have crucial relevance to psychiatry ... This chapter considers the significance of G protein-coupled signaling ..."

7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"Licenses are of two kinds, simple or revocable, and coupled with a grant or ... 497 ; and it is not so with a license closely coupled with a transfer of ..."

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