decouple

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But the Rifkin dream has taken a few knocks in recent times as Europe's inability to decouple from the American train (wreck) becomes apparent, and then there's the matter of the never-ending presidential election campaign on the other side of the Atlantic that stirred global interest and envy.

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  1. transitive verb Electronics To reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another).
  2. transitive verb Physics To decrease or eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosion) by having it take place underground.
  3. transitive verb To separate or detach: "There's not the slightest possibility that America would be decoupled from Europe by the pursuit of this vital initiative” (Caspar W. Weinberger).

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  • He wouldn't have had an answer, of course, but I really ought to have asked, and I should have insisted that I wasn't going to use his bloody YACs unless and until his genomic wizards spelled out exactly how Jack's bloody YACs were going to decouple the terminators in our seeds. —  Asimov's Science Fiction [2001.04]
  • With VMware View 3, IT organizations can "decouple" a desktop from specific physical devices or locations to create a personalized view of a user's desktop, applications, and data - called "myView" - that is securely accessible from almost any device, at any time. —  Latest News from Virtualization Journal
  • Building on insights from recent finance literature, this article contends that the government could in fact bear such hidden costs, through the interaction of a unique and underappreciated aspect of publicly traded financial derivatives - the ability to "decouple" the economic return of a risky asset from direct ownership of the underlying asset itself - and an income tax on risky investments. —  TaxProf Blog
  • One obvious need mentioned by presenters is how to "decouple" storm surge danger from the Saffir-Simpson Scale so that people do not focus on one aspect of the storm to the exclusion of the other. —  The Daily News - News
  • Biden was especially effective in tying McCain to Bush, and Palin could not decouple them except by repeating the word maverick. —  Faithful Progressive
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