coupler

From couple +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌp(ə)lə/

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coupler (plural couplers)

1. (now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
2. Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.

   Synonym: coupling

   • 1954 October, 'Boscawen', “The Kowloon-Canton Railway of Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 711:

     Another example of up-to-date practice is that all locomotives and rolling stock have automatic couplers.

3. (music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
4. A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
5. An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.

From Latin cōpulāre. Doublet of the borrowed copuler.

• IPA^(key): /ku.ple/

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coupler

1. (transitive) to couple

• accoupler
• couplage
• couplement
• coupleur
• découpler

• “coupler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.