2. Verb. (third person singular of couple) ¹
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Definition of Couples
1. couple [v] - See also: couple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Couples
Literary usage of Couples
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Applied Mechanics by Alfred Peter Poorman (1917)
"Composition of couples. The moment of the resultant of any number of coplanar
couples or of couples in parallel planes, is equal to the algebraic sum of the ..."
2. Applied Mechanics by Alfred Peter Poorman (1917)
"Composition of couples. The moment of the resultant of any number of coplanar
couples or of couples in parallel planes, is equal to the algebraic sum of the ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"Forward two. cross over, chassez, return, take waltz position, all waltz round ;
repeated by head couples ; same for sides. Third Figure. ..."
4. Analytical Mechanics for Engineers by Fred B. Seely, Newton Edward Ensign (1921)
"couples IN SPACE 36. Resultant of a System of couples. Proposition.—The resultant
of any number of couples is a couple. FIQ. 61. (d) Proof,—It is sufficient ..."
5. A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus: Containing Differential and Integral by Bartholomew Price (1868)
"J THE COMPOSITION OF couples. -1 Hence also a couple, whose moment-axis is equal
to G, but is in an opposite direction, neutralizes L and M, and the whole ..."
6. A Manual of Applied Mechanics by William John Macquorn Rankine (1898)
"Two couples applied to the same body in the same plane, or in parallel planes
... Let the two couples be denoted by A arid B; let FA = FB be their equal 30. ..."
7. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"But no combination of force-couples, on the other hand, can either produce in
the system, or resist in it, the action of a single force. ..."
8. Principles of Physics, Or, Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1866)
"The intensity of the current increases with the number of couples. E Dividing
both terms of the fraction by n, it becomes / = J , thia - + rn shows that the ..."
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