Meaning & use
Decoupled
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Separated or disconnected so that two things no longer affect each other directly.
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The system's front end was decoupled from its database for easier maintenance.
Economists debated whether wage growth had become decoupled from productivity.
A note on using this word
Widely used in software engineering to describe components that can be developed or changed independently of one another.
Words with a similar meaning
disconnectedseparateduncoupled
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coupledlinked
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