koppel — meaning in English

English meaning

• couple noun Two people who are in a romantic relationship or married.
• duo noun Two people, especially performers or partners, doing something together.
• pair noun Two matching or related things considered together.
• torque noun A twisting or rotational force that makes something turn around an axis.

Senses

koppel is used for these senses in English:

• couple Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
• couple Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
• couple One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
• duo (musician group) Two musicians who perform music together.
• pair Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
• torque (physics, mechanics) A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton-metre or N·m; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy)

couple — full definition

1. noun Two people who are in a romantic relationship or married.
2. noun A small, unspecified number of things or people — roughly two or a few.
3. verb To join or connect two things together.

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