Decoupling

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

Decoupling may also refer to:

Business

• 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 and organizational studies
  • Decoupling (organizational studies), creating and maintaining separation between policy, implementation and/or practice

Science

• Decoupling (cosmology), the transition from close interactions between particles to their effective independence
• Decoupling (meteorology), a 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

Engineering

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

Other

• Eco-economic decoupling, economic growth without apparent increase in environmental costs or demands
• the uncoupling of railroad/railway carriages or vehicles

See also

• Uncoupling (disambiguation)
• Coupling (disambiguation)