Decoupling

Decoupling usually refers to the ending, removal or reverse of coupling.

Decoupling may also refer to:

Economics

• Decoupling (advertising), the purchase of services directly from suppliers rather than via an advertising agency
• Decoupling (utility regulation), the disassociation of a utility's profits from its sales
• Decoupling and re-coupling in economics, where country's economies are no longer impacted by each other
• Decoupling (organizational studies), creating and maintaining separation between policy, implementation and/or practice
• Decoupling of wages from productivity, sometimes known as the Great Decoupling
• Eco-economic decoupling, economic growth without increase in environmental costs

Science

• Decoupling (cosmology), transition from close interactions between particles to their effective independence
• Decoupling (meteorology), change in the interaction between atmospheric layers at night
• Decoupling (neuropsychopharmacology), changes in neurochemical binding sites as a consequence of drug tolerance
• Nuclear magnetic resonance decoupling
• Decoupling (probability), reduction of a statistic to an average derived from independent random-variable sequences
• Decoupling for body-focused repetitive behaviors, technique for the reduction of body-focused repetitive behaviors

Engineering

• Decoupling (electronics), prevention of undesired energy transfer between electrical media
  • Decoupling capacitor, most common implementation technique
• The amelioration of coupling in computer programming

Other

• Uncoupling of railway carriages

See also

• Uncoupling (disambiguation)
• Coupling (disambiguation)

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