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coppia — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • couple noun Two people who are in a romantic relationship or married.
  • pair noun Two matching or related things considered together.
  • torque noun A twisting or rotational force that makes something turn around an axis.
  • two num The number after one; the quantity written as 2.
  • yoke noun A wooden bar or frame joining two draught animals, such as oxen, at the neck so they can pull a plough or cart together.

Senses

coppia 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.
  • ordered pair (set theory) An object containing exactly two elements in a fixed order, so that, when the elements are different, exchanging them gives a different object. Notation: (a, b) or \langle a, b\rangle.
  • pair (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
  • 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)
  • two Describing a set or group with two elements.
  • yoke (chiefly, historical) A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.

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.

pair — full definition

  1. noun Two matching or related things considered together.
  2. noun Two people in a relationship, partnership, or close association.
  3. noun In poker, a hand with two cards of the same rank.
  4. verb To put together in twos, or to connect one thing with another.
  5. verb To go well together; to suit as a match.

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