coupling

Example Sentences

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It was a “perfect coupling” of the magnetic field of the particles and the magnetic field of Earth—and unfortunately, he says, such chance couplings are “impossible to predict.”

From Scientific American

Saturday night into Sunday will bring the highest chance of snowfall both in the Seattle area and through the Cascades, Davis said, although a coupling of three snow-making weather systems will move through the region.

From Seattle Times

By visually coupling the bloodshed of children, teachers, doctors, moms and dads with the assault weapons that mutilated them, the grotesque can become the reviled.

From Washington Post

It showed how the coupling between the single particle and the group could cause the entire nucleus to rotate or to oscillate.

From Washington Post

It is a beguiling and ruminative synthesis of strange couplings: art and physics, psychology and psychedelics, characters and ideas.

From Los Angeles Times