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凸透鏡 — meaning in English

tū tòu jìng

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English meaning

  • coupler noun A person who joins things together, especially one employed to link railway carriages.
  • coupling noun A mechanical device or fitting that joins two parts together, such as two pipes, train cars, or machine components.
  • shortstop noun In baseball, the infield position (and player) between second and third base.

Senses

凸透鏡 is used for these senses in English:

  • coupler Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
  • coupling A device that couples two things together.
  • half-back (rugby) the scrum-half and the fly-half
  • shortstop (baseball) The infield defensive player that stands between the second baseman and the third baseman.

coupler — full definition

  1. noun A person who joins things together, especially one employed to link railway carriages.
  2. noun A fitting or device used to join things together, especially to link railway carriages.
  3. noun A mechanism on an organ that links two keyboards so they sound together.
  4. noun A device that turns digital signals into sound so data can travel down a phone line.

coupling — full definition

  1. noun A mechanical device or fitting that joins two parts together, such as two pipes, train cars, or machine components.
  2. noun In software or electronics, the degree to which two systems, modules, or circuits depend on or affect each other.
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