decouple

present singular third person decouples · participle present decoupling · participle past decoupled · past decoupled

1. ambitransitiveTo unlink; to take apart or come apart.

   radiation decoupled from matter

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   to decouple a spent rocket stage

   Wild said in a previous project update that Bond Street had been "decoupled from the opening of the railway" and that it is not yet clear if it will open as part of the initial Elizabeth Line opening this spring.

   2022 February 9, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Crossrail's Canary Wharf the ninth station to transfer to TfL”, in RAIL, number 950, page 15

   Synonyms: uncouple, unpair, dispair

2. transitivegovernmentTo muffle the seismic waves of (a nuclear explosion) by performing it underground.

   Decoupled tests would be nuclear explosions set off in massive underground caverns, a site that would greatly reduce the seismic waves caused by the explosion.

   1993, Sam Marullo, Ending the Cold War at Home, page 55

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   Smaller explosions and decoupled tests would be permitted. Further, the United States proposed that the three powers should start intensive research on the improvement of methods for detection and identification of underground explosions […]

   1961, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Edward Teller, The Future of Nuclear Tests, page 18