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l communication between the two poles of a battery; an arrangement of voltaic elements or couples with proper conductors, by which a continuous current of electricity is established.

A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.

United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple. [Obs.] The sixth conjugations or pair of nerves. Sir T. Browne.

See Coupe. [Obs.] Johnson.

The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.

Joined; associated; coupled. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction. Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas. Johnson.

Serving to couple, unite, or connect; as, a copulative conjunction like "and".

area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.

the variable itself, when these increments are made indefinitely small. -- Differential coupling, a form of slip coupling used in light machinery to regulate at pleasure the velocity of the connected shaft. -- Differential duties (Polit. Econ.), duties which are not imposed equally upon the same products imported fr…

rete proportion, proportion where the ratio of the means is different from that of either couplet; as, 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6 as 8 does to 16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or continual proportion; as, 3:6::12:24. -- Discrete quantity, that which must be divided in…

A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled. [Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, Float double, swan and shadow. Wordsworth.

Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.

A coupling pin. See under Coupling. [U. S.]

A small piece of artillery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.

An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.

A coupling pin. See under Coupling.

Two units treated as one; a couple; a pair.